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1 Thessalonians 5 15
See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.
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Luke 6:29-30
To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either.Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back.
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1 Peter 3 9
not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
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Proverbs 20:22
Do not say,“ I will recompense evil”; Wait for the Lord, and He will save you.
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1 Peter 2 20-1 Peter 2 23
For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:“ Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously;
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Leviticus 19:18
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 the Lord.
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Proverbs 24:29
Do not say,“ I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”
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Lamentations 3:30
Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him, And be full of reproach.
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Romans 12:17-19
Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written,“ Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
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1 Corinthians 6 7
Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?
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Isaiah 50:6
I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
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Job 31:29-31
“ If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, Or lifted myself up when evil found him( Indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking for a curse on his soul);If the men of my tent have not said,‘ Who is there that has not been satisfied with his meat?’
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1 Samuel 26 8-1 Samuel 26 10
Then Abishai said to David,“ God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore, please, let me strike him at once with the spear, right to the earth; and I will not have to strike him a second time!”But David said to Abishai,“ Do not destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?”David said furthermore,“ As the Lord lives, the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go out to battle and perish.
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1 Samuel 24 10-1 Samuel 24 15
Look, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said,‘ I will not stretch out my hand against my Lord, for he is the LORD’s anointed.’Moreover, my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my life to take it.Let the Lord judge between you and me, and let the Lord avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you.As the proverb of the ancients says,‘ Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand shall not be against you.After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?Therefore let the Lord be judge, and judge between you and me, and see and plead my case, and deliver me out of your hand.”
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Job 16:10
They gape at me with their mouth, They strike me reproachfully on the cheek, They gather together against me.
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James 5:6
You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
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1 Samuel 25 31-1 Samuel 25 34
that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my Lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my Lord has avenged himself. But when the Lord has dealt well with my Lord, then remember your maidservant.”Then David said to Abigail:“ Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.For indeed, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely by morning light no males would have been left to Nabal!”
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Hebrews 12:4
You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
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1 Kings 22 24
Now Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said,“ Which way did the spirit from the Lord go from me to speak to you?”
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Micah 5:1
Now gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops; He has laid siege against us; They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
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Luke 22:64
And having blindfolded Him, they struck Him on the face and asked Him, saying,“ Prophesy! Who is the one who struck You?”
