Retaliation: General Scriptures Concerning

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  1. But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life— …
  2. Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
  3. And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death. …
  4. …you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you. …
  5. In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
  6. Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.
  7. Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
  8. He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
  9. Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.
  10. You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’ …
  11. “Do not judge, or you will be judged.
  12. For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
  13. He sent messengers on ahead, who went into a village of the Samaritans to make arrangements for Him. …
  14. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.
  15. Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”
  16. The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
  17. Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
  18. Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.
  19. 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.