Jeremiah 37:18

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

who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.

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;

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.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

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

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh’s favor,

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

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

As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?

David said, “Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go! Yahweh will be with you.”

In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.

Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.

Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

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

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

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

It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy.” ’

and Zedekiah king of Judah won’t escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes will see his eyes;

“I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life and into the hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone away from you.

They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned with fire.’ ”

They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

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.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

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

Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”

but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?