Psalms 38:20

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

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

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.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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.

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;

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.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

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.

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

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

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.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

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

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

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

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

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

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,

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

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.

He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

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

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

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

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!

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

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?

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

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.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

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.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

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

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

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

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.

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

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

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?