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Physical or mental hurt, usually resulting from the deliberate actions or words of others.

Physical injury

Judges 1:6 See also Genesis 32:25; Luke 10:30; 2 Corinthians 11:23-25

Reparation must be made for physical injury

Exodus 21:19,22; Leviticus 24:17-22

Jesus Christ suffered physical injury

Matthew 16:21; John 19:1

God's people may suffer physical injury for his sake

Jeremiah 38:6; Galatians 6:17; Colossians 1:24; 1 Peter 2:19

Mental injury

Injury by slander

Leviticus 19:16; Proverbs 30:10; Matthew 5:11; Titus 3:2; James 4:11; 1 Peter 2:1

Injury by injustice

Psalm 58:1-2; Ecclesiastes 3:16; Isaiah 59:4-6; Ezekiel 34:4

Jesus Christ suffered mental injury

Matthew 26:59-60; 1 Peter 2:20-23

God's people may suffer mental injury for his sake

Matthew 5:11 See also Psalm 38:20; Jeremiah 15:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 1 Peter 2:19

All deliberate injury ruled out by love

Romans 13:10

Spiritual injury suffered by God's people

See also

Isaiah 1:5-6; Jeremiah 10:19; Jeremiah 30:12; Hosea 6:1 Sometimes this is God's judgment.

See also

5025  killing
5061  sanctity of life
5209  armour
5210  arrows
5333  healing
5348  injustice
5372  knife
5494  revenge
5560  suffering
5951  slander
5975  violence
6221  rebellion