1 Samuel 24:12
May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
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1 Samuel 24:12
May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
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Genesis 4:24
If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.
2 Samuel 4:8
And they took the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, and said to the king, Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul your hater, who would have taken your life; the Lord has taken payment for the wrongs of my lord the king from Saul and his seed today.
2 Kings 9:7
You are to see that the family of Ahab your master is cut off, so that I may take from Jezebel payment for the blood of my servants the prophets, and for the blood of all the servants of the Lord.
Esther 7:10
So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.
Psalms 7:1
Shiggaion of David; a song which he made to the Lord, about the words of Cush the Benjamite. O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;
Psalms 25:3
Let no servant of yours be put to shame; may those be shamed who are false without cause.
Psalms 58:10
The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer.
Psalms 94:1
O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.
Jeremiah 11:20
But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.
Jeremiah 15:15
O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;
Nahum 1:2
The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.
Hebrews 10:30
For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.
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Genesis 23:15
My lord, give ear to me: the value of the land is four hundred shekels; what is that between me and you? so put your dead to rest there.
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Genesis 31:36
Then Jacob was angry with Laban, and said, What crime or sin have I done that you have come after me with such passion?
Proverbs 17:26
To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.
Jeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah and all Judah put him to death? did he not in the fear of the Lord make prayer for the grace of the Lord, and the Lord let himself be turned from the decision he had made against them for evil? By this act we might do great evil against ourselves.
Acts 23:1
And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.
Acts 25:8
Then Paul, in his answer to them, said, I have done no wrong against the law of the Jews, or against the Temple, or against Caesar.
Acts 26:31
And when they had gone away they said to one another, This man has done nothing which might give cause for death or prison.
Galatians 4:16
So then am I no longer your friend, because I give you true words?
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Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.
Judges 11:10
And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.
1 Samuel 26:24
And so, as your life was dear to me today, may my life be dear to the Lord, and may he make me free from all my troubles.
1 Chronicles 12:17
And David went out to them, and said to them, If you have come in peace to give me help, my heart will be united with yours; but if you have come to give me up to those who would take my life, though my hands are clean from wrongdoing, then may the God of our fathers see it and give you punishment.
Psalms 7:6
Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.
Psalms 10:18
To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
Psalms 12:5
Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.
Psalms 35:23
Be awake, O Lord, be moved to take up my cause, my God and my Lord.
Psalms 54:3
For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)
Micah 1:2
Give ear, you peoples, all of you; give attention, O earth and everything in it: let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy Temple.
Micah 7:9
I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
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Exodus 5:21
And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.
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Deuteronomy 1:16
And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.
2 Samuel 8:15
And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
Psalms 58:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
Psalms 75:2
When the right time has come, I will be the judge in righteousness.
Psalms 119:121
AIN I have done what is good and right: you will not give me into the hands of those who are working against me.
Acts 21:16
And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, taking a certain Mnason of Cyprus, one of the early disciples, in whose house we were to be living.
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1 Samuel 10:12
And one of the people of that place said in answer, And who is their father? So it became a common saying, Is even Saul among the prophets?
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Exodus 21:13
But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.
1 Samuel 19:4
And Jonathan gave his father Saul a good account of David, and said to him, Let not the king do wrong against his servant, against David; because he has done you no wrong, and all his acts have had a good outcome for you:
1 Samuel 19:5
For he put his life in danger and overcame the Philistine, and the Lord gave all Israel salvation: you saw it and were glad: why then are you sinning against him who has done no wrong, desiring the death of David without cause?
1 Samuel 20:1
And David went in flight from Naioth in Ramah and came to Jonathan and said, What have I done? What is my crime and my sin against your father that he is attempting to take my life?
1 Samuel 22:14
Then Ahimelech answering said to the king, Who among all your servants is so true to you as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is a captain of your armed men, and has a place of honour in your house?
1 Samuel 24:8
And after that David came out of the hollow rock, and crying after Saul said, My lord the king. And when Saul gave a look back, David went down on his face and gave him honour.
1 Samuel 24:16
Now when David had said these words to Saul, Saul said, Is this your voice, David, my son? And Saul was overcome with weeping.
1 Samuel 24:18
And you have made clear to me how good you have been to me today: because, when the Lord gave me up into your hands, you did not put me to death.
1 Samuel 24:19
If a man comes across his hater, will he let him get away safe? so may you be rewarded by the Lord for what you have done for me today.
Proverbs 17:13
If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.
John 10:32
Jesus said to them in answer, I have let you see a number of good works from the Father; for which of those works are you stoning me?
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1 Samuel 21:15
Are there not enough unbalanced men about me, that you have let this person come and do such tricks before me? is such a man to come into my house?
Psalms 119:23
Rulers make evil designs against me; but your servant gives thought to your rules.
Psalms 119:78
Let the men of pride be shamed; because they have falsely given decision against me; but I will give thought to your orders.
Psalms 119:86
All your teachings are certain; they go after me with evil design; give me your help.
Psalms 119:157
Great is the number of those who are against me; but I have not been turned away from your unchanging word.
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1 Samuel 25:39
And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.
Job 5:8
But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:
Psalms 10:15
Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.
Psalms 35:10
All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.
Psalms 54:7
Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.
Psalms 68:5
A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.
Psalms 140:12
I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.
Proverbs 22:23
For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.
Proverbs 23:11
For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
Jeremiah 20:11
But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.
Jeremiah 50:34
Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:36
For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.
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2 Samuel 1:14
And David said to him, Had you no fear of stretching out your hand to put to death the one marked with the holy oil?
2 Samuel 1:16
And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.
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2 Samuel 24:22
And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take whatever seems right to him, and make an offering of it: see, here are the oxen for the burned offering, and the grain-cleaning instruments and the ox-yokes for wood:
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1 Samuel 23:9
And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.
1 Samuel 28:19
And more than this, the Lord will give Israel up with you into the hands of the Philistines: and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me: and the Lord will give up the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 31:3
And the fight was going badly for Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers.
1 Samuel 31:4
Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take out your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, and falling on it, put an end to himself.
1 Kings 2:32
And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
Psalms 36:4
He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.
Psalms 36:12
There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.
Malachi 2:3
See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
Malachi 2:4
And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 2:5
My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name.
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Job 1:20
Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,
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2 Samuel 13:8
So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was in bed. And she took paste and made cakes before his eyes, cooking them over the fire.
Job 2:12
And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.
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Psalms 9:8
And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.
Psalms 10:16
The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land.
Psalms 10:17
Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
Psalms 54:1
To the chief music-maker; on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David. When the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Is not David keeping himself secret among us? Let your name be my salvation, O God; let my cause be judged by your strength.
Psalms 54:2
Let my prayer come before you, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 54:4
See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul.
Psalms 54:6
Freely will I make my offerings to you; I will give praise to your name, O Lord, for it is good.
Jeremiah 20:13
Make melody to the Lord, give praise to the Lord: for he has made the soul of the poor man free from the hands of the evil-doers.
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Psalms 17:3
You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.
Psalms 44:17
All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.
Psalms 44:18
Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;
Psalms 44:19
Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.
Psalms 44:20
If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
Psalms 44:21
Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.
2 Corinthians 11:11
Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.
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Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
Psalms 26:6
I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
Hebrews 7:26
It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:
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Psalms 25:21
For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.
Psalms 26:1
Of David. O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.
Psalms 26:11
But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.
Psalms 41:12
And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.
Proverbs 11:3
The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.
Proverbs 20:7
An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!
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Psalms 136:15
By him Pharaoh and his army were overturned in the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psalms 136:16
To him who took his people through the waste land: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psalms 136:17
To him who overcame great kings: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psalms 136:18
And put noble kings to death: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psalms 136:19
Sihon, king of the Amorites: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psalms 136:20
And Og, king of Bashan: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psalms 143:12
And in your mercy put an end to my haters, and send destruction on all those who are against my soul; for I am your servant.
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John 18:29
So Pilate came out to them and put the question: What have you to say against this man?
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John 18:30
They said to him in answer, If the man was not a wrongdoer we would not have given him up to you.
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Acts 25:18
But when they got up they said nothing about such crimes as I had in mind:
Acts 25:19
But had certain questions against him in connection with their religion, and about one Jesus, now dead, who, Paul said, was living.
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Leviticus 19:18
Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 24:29
Say not, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will give the man the reward of his work.
Romans 12:17
Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men.
1 Peter 2:20
What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God.
1 Peter 3:9
Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing.
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Psalms 55:23
But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
Jeremiah 51:56
For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.
Revelation 18:20
Be glad over her, heaven, and you saints, and Apostles, and prophets; because she has been judged by God on your account.
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