Bible Verses About Retaliation: General references

But if any harm follows, then you are to give life for life,

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

burn for burn, wound for wound and bruise for bruise.

Don't take vengeance on or bear a grudge against any of your people; rather, love your neighbor as yourself; I am ADONAI.

"'Anyone who strikes another person and kills him must be put to death.

Anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution, life for life.

If someone injures his neighbor, what he did is to be done to him -

break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth -whatever injury he has caused the other person is to be rendered to him in return.

He who kills an animal is to make restitution, but he who kills another person is to be put to death.

You are to apply the same standard of judgment to the foreigner as to the citizen, because I am ADONAI your God."

you are to do to him what he intended to do to his brother. In this way, you will put an end to such wickedness among you.

Those who remain will hear about it, be afraid and no longer commit such wickedness among you.

Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

The wicked in their arrogance hunt down the poor, who get caught in the schemes they think up.

Don't say, "I'll pay back evil for evil"; wait for ADONAI to save you.

Don't say, "I'll do to him what he did to me, I'll pay him back what his deeds deserve."

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on the one who starts it rolling.

Woe, destroyer, yourself undestroyed! Woe, betrayer, yourself unbetrayed! When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed; when you tire of betraying, they will betray you.

"You have heard that our fathers were told, `Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.'

But I tell you not to stand up against someone who does you wrong. On the contrary, if someone hits you on the right cheek, let him hit you on the left cheek too!

If someone wants to sue you for your shirt, let him have your coat as well!

And if a soldier forces you to carry his pack for one mile, carry it for two!

When someone asks you for something, give it to him; when someone wants to borrow something from you, lend it to him.

"You have heard that our fathers were told, `Love your neighbors -- and hate your enemy.'

But I tell you, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!