Proverbs 17:13
If you repay evil for good, evil will never leave your house.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
In Context
12Better to meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs than a stupid person and their foolishness.
Cross References
1 Samuel 31:2The Philistines chased down Saul and his sons, killing Saul's sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.
2 Samuel 21:1Once during David's reign there was a famine for three years in a row, and David asked the Lord about it. The Lord replied, “It's because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites.”
Psalms 38:20They pay me back evil for good; they accuse me for the good I try to do.
Psalms 109:4I love them, but they respond with hostility towards me, even while I'm praying for them!
Jeremiah 18:20Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they have dug a pit to trap me! Remember how I stood before you to plead on their behalf, to stop you being angry with them?
Matthew 27:25All the people answered, “His blood is on us, and on 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 →