Psalms 38:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, Because I follow what is good.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 35:12 : 12 They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.
  • 1 John 3:12 : 12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
  • 1 Sam 19:4-6 : 4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you: 5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause? 6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.
  • 1 Sam 23:5 : 5 David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
  • 1 Sam 23:12 : 12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up to me and my men into the hand of Saul? Yahweh said, They will deliver you up.
  • 1 Sam 25:16 : 16 they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
  • 1 Sam 25:21 : 21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him: and he has returned me evil for good.
  • Ps 7:4 : 4 If I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (Yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
  • Ps 109:3-5 : 3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause. 4 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; But I am in prayer. 5 They have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
  • Matt 5:10 : 10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • John 10:32 : 32 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
  • 1 Pet 3:13 : 13 Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?
  • 1 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil. 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
  • 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. 15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters. 16 But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

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