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Prov. 17:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

Whoson rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Psa. 55:12‑15• ¹²For [it was] not an enemy reproached me:{HR}Then I had borne [it];{HR}Neither did he that hateth me magnify [himself] against me:{HR}Then had I hidden myself from him;
¹³But thou, a man mine equal,{HR}Mine intimate, my familiar!
¹⁴We who together sweetened counsel,{HR}To the house of God we walked in the throng.
¹⁵Let death seize them,{HR}Let them go down alive [to] Sheol.{HR}For evils [are] in their dwelling, in their midst. (Psa. 55:12‑15)

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1 Sam. 24:17• ¹⁷And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. (1 Sam. 24:17)

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1 Sam. 31:2‑3• ²And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul's sons.
³And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. (1 Sam. 31:2‑3)

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2 Sam. 21:1‑14• ¹And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
²And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them, (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remainder of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them, and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah)
³And David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make an atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of Jehovah?
⁴And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
⁵And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
⁶let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, whom Jehovah did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
⁷But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Jehovah's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
⁸And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she had borne to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of the sister of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;
⁹and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before Jehovah. And they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the first days of the harvest, in the beginning of barley harvest.
¹⁰And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
¹¹And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
¹²And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
¹³and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
¹⁴And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land. (2 Sam. 21:1‑14)

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Psa. 35:12• ¹²They requite me evil instead of good [to the] bereaving of my soul. (Psa. 35:12)

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Psa. 38:20• ²⁰And those who recompense me evil for good will oppose me{HR}Because of my pursuing good. (Psa. 38:20)

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Psa. 109:4‑13• ⁴For my love they are mine adversaries,{HR}And I [am for] prayer.
⁵And they set upon me evil for good,{HR}And hatred for my love.
⁶Appoint over him a wicked one,{HR}And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
⁷When he is judged, let him go out guilty,{HR}And his prayer be for sin.
⁸Let his days be few, let another take his office.
⁹Let his sons be orphans and his wife a widow.
¹⁰And let his sons be vagabonds (wandering wanderers),{HR}And beg and seek [bread] out of their desolations.
¹¹Let an exactor ensnare all that he hath,{HR}And strangers plunder his labour.
¹²Let there be none extending mercy to him,{HR}Nor anyone gracious to his orphans.
¹³Let his posterity (latter end) be cut off;{HR}In a generation following let their name be blotted out. (Psa. 109:4‑13)

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Jer. 18:20‑21• ²⁰Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
²¹Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. (Jer. 18:20‑21)

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Matt. 27:5,25• ⁵And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left the place, and went away and hanged himself.
²⁵And all the people answering said, His blood [be] on us and on our children. (Matt. 27:5,25)

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Rom. 12:17• ¹⁷repay to none evil for evil; providing things right in the sight of all men; (Rom. 12:17)

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1 Thess. 5:15• ¹⁵See that none render to anyone evil for evil, but always pursue that which is good one toward another, and toward all. (1 Thess. 5:15)

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1 Peter 3:9• ⁹not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, because hereunto ye were called, that ye should inherit blessing. (1 Peter 3:9)

• Note the ways and doom of Joab when he became lifted up in his own eyes (1 Kings 2:28-34). (“Proverbs Seventeen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

W. Kelly Translation

Whoso rewardeth evil for good,{HR}Evil shall not depart from his house.