Genesis 34:13

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”

For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is in it, and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot is fallen on it.

Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand.

No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”

When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.

After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong, with a small people.

“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

saying, “Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

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

They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”