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1 Thessalonians 5 15
See to it that no one repays evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.
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Luke 6:29-30
If anyone hits you on the cheek, offer the other also. And if anyone takes away your coat, don’t hold back your shirt either.Give to everyone who asks you, and from someone who takes your things, don’t ask for them back.
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1 Peter 3 9
not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you may inherit a blessing.
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Proverbs 20:22
Don’t say,“ I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and he will rescue you.
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1 Peter 2 20-1 Peter 2 23
For what credit is there if when you do wrong and are beaten, you endure it? But when you do what is good and suffer, if you endure it, this brings favor with God.For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.He did not commit sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth;when he was insulted, he did not insult in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten but entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.
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Leviticus 19:18
Do not take revenge or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.
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Proverbs 24:29
Don’t say,“ I’ll do to him what he did to me; I’ll repay the man for what he has done.”
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Lamentations 3:30
Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with disgrace.
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Romans 12:17-19
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Give careful thought to do what is honorable in everyone’s eyes.If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for God’s wrath, because it is written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.
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1 Corinthians 6 7
As it is, to have legal disputes against one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
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Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who tore out my beard. I did not hide my face from scorn and spitting.
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Job 31:29-31
Have I rejoiced over my enemy’s distress, or become excited when trouble came his way?I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse.Haven’t the members of my household said,“ Who is there who has not had enough to eat at Job’s table?”
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1 Samuel 26 8-1 Samuel 26 10
Then Abishai said to David,“ Today God has delivered your enemy to you. Let me thrust the spear through him into the ground just once. I won’t have to strike him twice!”But David said to Abishai,“ Don’t destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be innocent?”David added,“ As the LORD lives, the LORD will certainly strike him down: either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
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1 Samuel 24 10-1 Samuel 24 15
You can see with your own eyes that the LORD handed you over to me today in the cave. Someone advised me to kill you, but I took pity on you and said: I won’t lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.Look, my father! Look at the corner of your robe in my hand, for I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. Recognize that I’ve committed no crime or rebellion. I haven’t sinned against you even though you are hunting me down to take my life.“ May the LORD judge between me and you, and may the LORD take vengeance on you for me, but my hand will never be against you.As the old proverb says,‘ Wickedness comes from wicked people.’ My hand will never be against you.Who has the king of Israel come after? What are you chasing after? A dead dog? A single flea?May the LORD be judge and decide between you and me. May he take notice and plead my case and deliver me from you.”
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Job 16:10
They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join themselves together against me.
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James 5:6
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous, who does not resist you.
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1 Samuel 25 31-1 Samuel 25 34
there will not be remorse or a troubled conscience for my lord because of needless bloodshed or my lord’s revenge. And when the LORD does good things for my lord, may you remember me your servant.”Then David said to Abigail,“ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today!May your discernment be blessed, and may you be blessed. Today you kept me from participating in bloodshed and avenging myself by my own hand.Otherwise, as surely as the LORD God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn’t have had any males left by morning light.”
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Hebrews 12:4
In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
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1 Kings 22 24
Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up, hit Micaiah on the cheek, and demanded,“ Did the Spirit of the LORD leave me to speak to you?”
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Micah 5:1
Now, daughter who is under attack, you slash yourself in grief; a siege is set against us! They are striking the judge of Israel on the cheek with a rod.
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Luke 22:64
After blindfolding him, they kept asking,“ Prophesy! Who was it that hit you?”