1 Samuel 25:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.

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  • Prov 17:13 : 13 If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.
  • Rom 12:21 : 21 Do not let evil overcome you, but overcome evil by good.
  • Eph 4:26 : 26 Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;
  • Eph 4:31 : 31 Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;
  • 1 Thess 5:15 : 15 Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.
  • 1 Pet 2:20-23 : 20 What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God. 21 This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps: 22 Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth: 23 To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness:
  • 1 Pet 3:9 : 9 Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing.
  • 1 Pet 3:17 : 17 Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.
  • Gen 44:4 : 4 And when they had gone only a little way out of the town, Joseph said to the servant who was over his house, Go after them; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you done evil in reward for good?
  • 1 Sam 25:13 : 13 And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.
  • Job 30:8 : 8 They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.
  • Ps 35:12 : 12 They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.
  • Ps 37:8 : 8 Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.
  • Ps 38:20 : 20 They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.
  • Ps 109:3-5 : 3 Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause. 4 For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer. 5 They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

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  • 1 Sam 25:22
    81%

    22 May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living.

  • 1 Sam 24:17-19
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    80%

    17 Now when David had said these words to Saul, Saul said, Is this your voice, David, my son? And Saul was overcome with weeping.

    18 And he said to David, You are right and I am wrong: for you have given me back good, but I have given you evil.

    19 And you have made clear to me how good you have been to me today: because, when the Lord gave me up into your hands, you did not put me to death.

  • 1 Sam 25:30-35
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    78%

    30 And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;

    31 Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.

    32 And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:

    33 A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.

    34 For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.

    35 Then David took from her hands her offering: and he said to her, Go back to your house in peace; see, I have given ear to your voice, and taken your offering with respect.

  • 2 Sam 16:12
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    12 It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

  • 1 Sam 30:19-23
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    19 There was no loss of anything, small or great, sons or daughters or goods or anything which they had taken away: David got it all back.

    20 And they took all the flocks and herds, and driving them in front of him, said, These are David's.

    21 And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?

    22 Then the bad and good-for-nothing men among those who went with David said, Because they did not go with us, we will give them nothing of the goods which we have got back, but only to every man his wife and children, so that he may take them and go.

    23 Then David said, You are not to do this, my brothers, after what the Lord has given us, who has kept us safe and given up the band which came against us into our hands.

  • 1 Sam 25:20
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    20 Now while she was going down under cover of the mountain on her ass, David and his men came down against her, and suddenly she came face to face with them.

  • Ps 7:4
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    4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

  • Jer 18:20
    74%

    20 Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.

  • 1 Sam 25:11-12
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    74%

    11 Am I to take my bread and my wine and the meat I have got ready for my wool-cutters and give it to men coming from I have no idea where?

    12 So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.

  • 1 Sam 25:39
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    39 And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.

  • 1 Sam 25:14-15
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    14 But one of the young men said to Nabal's wife Abigail, David sent men from the waste land to say kind words to our master, and he gave them a rough answer.

    15 But these men have been very good to us; they did us no wrong and nothing of ours was touched while we were with them in the fields:

  • 1 Sam 26:18
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    18 And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me?

  • 1 Sam 17:29
    73%

    29 And David said, What have I done now? was it not only a word?

  • 2 Sam 12:6
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    6 And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    73%

    9 And David again and again made attacks on the land till not a man or a woman was still living; and he took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing; and he came back to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 25:4
    73%

    4 And David had word in the waste land that Nabal was cutting the wool of his sheep.

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    73%

    9 And after that David came out of the hollow rock, and crying after Saul said, My lord the king. And when Saul gave a look back, David went down on his face and gave him honour.

  • Ps 35:12
    73%

    12 They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.

  • 1 Sam 25:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7 I have had word that you have wool-cutters: now the keepers of your sheep have been with us, and we have done them no evil, and taken nothing of theirs while they were in Carmel.

    8 If your young men are questioned they will say the same thing. So now, let my young men have grace in your eyes, for we are come at a good time; please give anything you may have by you to your servants and to your son David.

    9 And when David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal, in David's name, and said nothing more.

  • 1 Sam 26:23
    73%

    23 And the Lord will give to every man the reward of his righteousness and his faith: because the Lord gave you into my hands today, and I would not put out my hand against the man who has been marked with the holy oil.

  • 2 Sam 4:10
    72%

    10 When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news:

  • 1 Sam 25:26-27
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    72%

    26 So now, my lord, by the living God and by your living soul, seeing that the Lord has kept you from the crime of blood and from taking into your hands the punishment for your wrongs, may all your haters, and those who would do evil to my lord, be like Nabal.

    27 And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.

  • Ps 109:5
    72%

    5 They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

  • 1 Sam 25:17
    72%

    17 So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.

  • 1 Chr 12:17
    72%

    17 And David went out to them, and said to them, If you have come in peace to give me help, my heart will be united with yours; but if you have come to give me up to those who would take my life, though my hands are clean from wrongdoing, then may the God of our fathers see it and give you punishment.

  • 1 Sam 29:8
    72%

    8 And David said to Achish, But what have I done? what have you seen in your servant while I have been with you till this day, that I may not go and take up arms against those who are now making war on my lord the king?

  • 2 Sam 22:21
    72%

    21 The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    72%

    11 Not one living man or woman did David ever take back with him to Gath, fearing that they might give an account of what had taken place, and say, This is what David did, and so has he been doing all the time while he has been living in the land of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
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    10 Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me.

  • 1 Sam 24:11
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    11 Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.

  • 1 Sam 19:5
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    5 For he put his life in danger and overcame the Philistine, and the Lord gave all Israel salvation: you saw it and were glad: why then are you sinning against him who has done no wrong, desiring the death of David without cause?

  • Ps 109:20
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    20 Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

  • 1 Sam 26:21
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    21 Then Saul said, I have done wrong: come back to me, David my son: I will do you no more wrong, because my life was dear to you today truly, I have been foolish and my error is very great.

  • 2 Sam 19:27
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    27 He has given you a false account of me: but my lord the king is like the angel of God: do then whatever seems good to you.