Proverbs 24:29
Good News Translation
Don't say, "I'll do to them just what they did to me! I'll get even with them!"

New Revised Standard Version
Do not say, “I will do to others as they have done to me; I will pay them back for what they have done.”

Contemporary English Version
or say to someone, "I'll get even with you!"

New American Bible
Do not say, “As they did to me, so will I do to them; I will repay them according to their deeds.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.

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Proverbs 20:22 Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord, and he will deliver thee.

Proverbs 25:21,22 If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink: . . .

Matthew 5:39-44 But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other: . . .

Romans 12:17-21 To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of all men. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render evil for evil to any man: but ever follow that which is good towards each other and towards all men.

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Judges 15:11 Wherefore three thousand men of Juda went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them.

2 Samuel 13:22-28 But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar. . . .

Context
Further Sayings of the Wise
28Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips. 29Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.30I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:…
Cross References
Matthew 5:39
But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other:

Romans 12:17
To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of all men.

Romans 12:19
Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

Proverbs 20:22
Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord, and he will deliver thee.

Proverbs 24:28
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