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Bible Verses About Retaliation

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  1. "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

  2. For the way you judge others is how you will be judged -- the measure with which you measure out will be used to measure to you.

  3. He sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village in Shomron to make preparations for him.

  4. However, the people there would not let him stay, because his destination was Yerushalayim.

  5. When the talmidim Ya‘akov and Yochanan saw this, they said, “Sir, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to destroy them?”

  6. But he turned and rebuked them.

  7. And they went on to another village.

  8. Repay no one evil for evil, but try to do what everyone regards as good.

  9. Never seek revenge, my friends; instead, leave that to God’s anger; for in the Tanakh it is written, “Adonai says, ‘Vengeance is my responsibility; I will repay.’”

  10. Actually, if you are bringing lawsuits against each other, it is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

  11. Instead, you yourselves wrong and cheat; and you do it to your own brothers!

  12. See that no one repays evil for evil; on the contrary, always try to do good to each other, indeed, to everyone.

  13. not repaying evil with evil or insult with insult, but, on the contrary, with blessing. For it is to this that you have been called, so that you may receive a blessing.