They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
Parallel translations
- KJV They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
- BSB Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
- NKJV Those also who render evil for good, They are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.
- NASB And those who repay evil for good, They become my enemies, because I follow what is good.
- NLT They repay me evil for good and oppose me for pursuing good.
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- Ps 35:12They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
- 1 Jn 3:12unlike 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.
- Jer 18:20Shall 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.
- 1 Pet 4:14–16If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
- John 10:32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
- Ps 109:3–5They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
- 1 Sam 25:21Now 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.
- Ps 7:4if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
- 1 Pet 3:17–18For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
- 1 Sam 19:4–6Jonathan 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;
- 1 Sam 23:12Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”
- Matt 5:10Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
- 1 Pet 3:13Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?
- 1 Sam 23:5David 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.
- 1 Sam 25:16They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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