Bible Dictionary: Revenge: Forbidden by Our Lord

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Leviticus 19:18
You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
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Proverbs 24:17,29
Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles:
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Matthew 5:39-41
But I say to you, That you resist not evil: but whoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
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Romans 12:17,19
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
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1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that none render evil for evil to any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
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1 Peter 3:9
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing.
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Library

From the Fourth to the Seventh Commandment
... is injuring our health and shortening our lives. ... 368 Q. What is forbidden by the
Fifth Commandment ... all willful murder, fighting, anger, hatred, revenge, and bad ...
/.../kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 33 from the fourth.htm

Letter Xlvii. (AD 398. )
... was absolutely forbidden, or they were forbidden to carry ... which we nevertheless use
for our convenience, although ... us from taking pleasure in revenge, in which ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter xlvii a d 398.htm

Whether the New Law Fulfils the Old?
... For the Law fixed a limit to revenge, by forbidding men ... Reply to Objection 3: It
was forbidden by the Law to ... 2149]Q[102], A[5], ad 4). But Our Lord, Who healed ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the new law fulfils.htm

The Sop
... have striven too willfully to serve our Lord by forcing ... the yoke, some longing for
the forbidden ways of ... to seek his accomplices and his revenge, Jesus feels ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 14 17-21 the sop.htm

The Danger of Riches
... this is done, is what our Lord has flatly forbidden. ... But "who hath believed our report?"
I fear, not many ... able to defend myself." You mean, to revenge yourself ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 87 the danger of.htm

On Lent, xi.
... being ordered to be done and others forbidden, he can ... V. Forgiveness of our own sins
requires that we should ... may not violate by any love of revenge that most ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings of leo the great/sermon xlix on lent xi.htm

The Seventh Season,
... against our enemies, and to sweeten our embittered spirits. ... However gratifying to
your corrupt propensities revenge may be, remember that it is forbidden. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/on keeping the heart/vii the seventh season.htm

The Way of Life and the Way of Death.
... him the other also." [3360] Not that revenge is evil ... arts; for all these things has
the law forbidden. ... in which may ye be found, through Jesus Christ our Lord. ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec i on the two ways.htm

Non-Resistants.
... this world; the subjects of which are forbidden to fight ... allow no appeal to patriotism,
to revenge any national ... will have become the kingdoms of our LORD and of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/non-resistants.htm

Concerning Salutations and Recreations, &C.
... if all manner of oaths had been forbidden by Christ ... [1377] These words, with respect
to revenge, as the ... contradictions, as these laws of our Lord Jesus Christ ...
/.../proposition xv concerning salutations and.htm

Subtopics

Revenge by James and John

Revenge by Jezebel

Revenge by Joab

Revenge by Samson

Revenge by Simeon and Levi

Revenge by the Chief Priests