Cross references

Proverbs 17:13

If anyone returns evil for good,

evil will never leave his house.

Proverbs 17:13 BSB

Proverbs 17:13 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 109:4–13 (10 votes) and Psalm 55:12–15 (9 votes). 13 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Genesis 44 to 1 Peter 3.

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Which verses does Proverbs 17:13 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer. They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love. …

  2. For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide. But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend. …

  3. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.

  4. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

  5. They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.

  6. Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.

  7. Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

  8. and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.

  9. Should 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. Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

  10. So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

Which verses point to Proverbs 17:13?

The 10 strongest of 13.