1 Samuel 23:5

They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”

They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.

I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.

For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.

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

He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.

my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Should 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.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,