Proverbs 17:13
Whoever repays evil for good, evil shall not withdraw from his house.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
In Context
12It is more expedient to meet a bear robbed of her young, than the foolish trusting in his own folly.
Cross References
1 Samuel 31:2And the Philistines rushed upon Saul, and upon his sons, and they struck down Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
2 Samuel 21:1And a famine occurred, during the days of David, for three years continuously. And David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: “This is because of Saul, and his house of bloodshed. For he killed the Gibeonites.”
Psalms 109:4The Lord has sworn, and he will not repent: “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Jeremiah 18:20Should evil be rendered for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul! Remember that I have stood in your sight, so as to speak on their behalf for good, and to avert your indignation from them.
Matthew 27:25And the entire people responded by saying, “May his blood be upon us and upon our children.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:13
Weighty Sayings. 12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. Note, 1. A passionate man is a brutish man. However at other times he may have some wisdom, take him in his passion ungoverned, and he is a fool in his folly; those are fools in whose bosom anger rests and in whose countenance anger rages. He has put off man, and is become like a bear, a raging bear, a bear robbed of her whelps; he is as fond of the gratifications of his lusts and passions as a bear of her whelps… Read the whole commentary →