In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.
Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
…and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.
During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”