John 18:23

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.”

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

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

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

“ ‘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.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

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.

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

David said, “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?”

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

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

In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

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

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

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.”

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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.

He will not strive, nor shout; neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

“Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

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

Jesus answered them, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?

For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this”—and he touched his ear, and healed him.

Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

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

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”

But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

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

The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter: this is how I write.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.