Psalms 35:12

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

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

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

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

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.

who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

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.

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel.

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

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.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

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

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.

The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

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?

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

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

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

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.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

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.

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

“ ‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.

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;

Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”

Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to 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.

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.

So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.

“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”

behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

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

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.

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

Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

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

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

but Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.”

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.

They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I pray.”

About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

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

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.