5346 injury

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

Physical injury

Jdg 1:6 See also Ge 32:25; Lk 10:30; 2Co 11:23-25

Reparation must be made for physical injury Ex 21:19,22; Lev 24:17-22

Jesus Christ suffered physical injury Mt 16:21; Jn 19:1

God’s people may suffer physical injury for his sake Jer 38:6; Gal 6:17; Col 1:24; 1Pe 2:19

Mental injury

Injury by slander Lev 19:16; Pr 30:10; Mt 5:11; Tit 3:2; Jas 4:11; 1Pe 2:1

Injury by injustice Ps 58:1-2; Ecc 3:16; Isa 59:4-6; Eze 34:4

Jesus Christ suffered mental injury Mt 26:59-60; 1Pe 2:20-23

God’s people may suffer mental injury for his sake Mt 5:11 See also Ps 38:20; Jer 15:15; 1Th 2:2; 1Pe 2:19

All deliberate injury ruled out by love

Ro 13:10

Spiritual injury suffered by God’s people

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