1 Samuel 25:21

American Standard Version (1901)

Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.

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  • Prov 17:13 : 13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
  • Rom 12:21 : 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
  • Eph 4:26 : 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
  • Eph 4:31 : 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:
  • 1 Thess 5:15 : 15 See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all.
  • 1 Pet 2:20-23 : 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted [for it], ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. 21 For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:
  • 1 Pet 3:9 : 9 not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
  • 1 Pet 3:17 : 17 For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
  • Gen 44:4 : 4 [ And] when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
  • 1 Sam 25:13 : 13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.
  • Job 30:8 : 8 [ They are] children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.
  • Ps 35:12 : 12 They reward me evil for good, [To] the bereaving of my soul.
  • Ps 37:8 : 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: Fret not thyself, [it tendeth] only to evil-doing.
  • Ps 38:20 : 20 They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
  • Ps 109:3-5 : 3 They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause. 4 For my love they are my adversaries: But I [give myself unto] prayer. 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 25:22
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    22God do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one man-child.

  • 1 Sam 24:17-19
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    80%

    17And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast rendered unto me good, whereas I have rendered unto thee evil.

    18And thou hast declared this day how that thou hast dealt well with me, forasmuch as when Jehovah had delivered me up into thy hand, thou killedst me not.

    19For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore Jehovah reward thee good for that which thou hast done unto me this day.

  • 1 Sam 25:30-35
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    78%

    30And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee prince over Israel,

    31that this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.

    32And David said to Abigail, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me:

    33and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

    34For in very deed, as Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, who hath withholden me from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light so much as one man-child.

    35So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said unto her, Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.

  • 2 Sam 16:12
    75%

    12It may be that Jehovah will look on the wrong done unto me, and that Jehovah will requite me good for [his] cursing of me this day.

  • 1 Sam 30:19-23
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    75%

    19And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought back all.

    20And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove before those [other] cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

    21And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

    22Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.

    23Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which Jehovah hath given unto us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Sam 25:20
    75%

    20And it was so, as she rode on her ass, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that, behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.

  • Ps 7:4
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    4If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)

  • Jer 18:20
    74%

    20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

  • 1 Sam 25:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men of whom I know not whence they are?

    12So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

  • 1 Sam 25:39
    74%

    39And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Jehovah, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept back his servant from evil: and the evil-doing of Nabal hath Jehovah returned upon his own head. And David sent and spake concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

  • 1 Sam 25:14-15
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    74%

    14But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them.

    15But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields:

  • 1 Sam 26:18
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    18And he said, Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

  • 1 Sam 17:29
    73%

    29And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

  • 2 Sam 12:6
    73%

    6and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
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    9And David smote the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel; and he returned, and came to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 25:4
    73%

    4And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    73%

    9And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearkenest thou to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

  • Ps 35:12
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    12They reward me evil for good, [To] the bereaving of my soul.

  • 1 Sam 25:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: thy shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there aught missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.

    8Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee: wherefore let the young men find favor in thine eyes; for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thy hand, unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

    9And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

  • 1 Sam 26:23
    73%

    23And Jehovah will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; forasmuch as Jehovah delivered thee into my hand to-day, and I would not put forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed.

  • 2 Sam 4:10
    72%

    10when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings.

  • 1 Sam 25:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah hath withholden thee from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and them that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

    27And now this present which thy servant hath brought unto my lord, let it be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

  • Ps 109:5
    72%

    5And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

  • 1 Sam 25:17
    72%

    17Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a worthless fellow, that one cannot speak to him.

  • 1 Chr 12:17
    72%

    17And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, my heart shall be knit unto you; but if [ye be come] to betray me to mine adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.

  • 1 Sam 29:8
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    8And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been before thee unto this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

  • 2 Sam 22:21
    72%

    21Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
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    11And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and so hath been his manner all the while he hath dwelt in the country of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
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    10Then said David, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, thy servant hath surely heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • 1 Sam 24:11
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    11Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou huntest after my life to take it.

  • 1 Sam 19:5
    72%

    5for he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great victory for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice; wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

  • Ps 109:20
    72%

    20This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.

  • 1 Sam 26:21
    71%

    21Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do thee harm, because my life was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

  • 2 Sam 19:27
    71%

    27And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.