EVIL FOR GOOD

Passages on this topic · 21

• Genesis 44:4

  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?

• Exodus 5:21

  and they said to them, “May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

• Exodus 14:11

  They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

• Exodus 15:24

  The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

• Exodus 16:2

  The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

• Exodus 16:3

  and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

• Exodus 17:3

  The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

• Exodus 17:4

  Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

• 1 Samuel 19:1

  Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.

• 1 Samuel 19:4

  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;

• 1 Samuel 19:5

  for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

• 1 Samuel 19:10

  Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

• 1 Samuel 25:21

  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.

• 1 Kings 2:4

  Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

• 1 Kings 2:5

  “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

• 1 Kings 2:6

  Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

• Psalms 7:4

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

• Psalms 7:5

  let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

• Psalms 35:12

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

• Psalms 109:5

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

• Proverbs 17:13

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