Proverbs 17:13
If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
In Context
12It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.
14To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
Cross References
1 Samuel 31:2The Philistines hotly pursued Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.
2 Samuel 21:1During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
Psalms 38:20Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
Psalms 109:4In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
Jeremiah 18:20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
Matthew 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be 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 →