20 Those who (A)render me evil for good
    (B)accuse me because I (C)follow after good.

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20 Those who repay my good with evil(A)
    lodge accusations(B) against me,
    though I seek only to do what is good.

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12 (A)They repay me evil for good;
    my soul is bereft.[a]

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  1. Psalm 35:12 Hebrew it is bereavement to my soul

12 They repay me evil for good(A)
    and leave me like one bereaved.

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12 We should not be like (A)Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? (B)Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

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12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one(A) and murdered his brother.(B) And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.(C)

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20 (A)Should good be repaid with evil?
    Yet (B)they have dug a pit for my life.
(C)Remember how I stood before you
    to speak good for them,
    to turn away your wrath from them.

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20 Should good be repaid with evil?(A)
    Yet they have dug a pit(B) for me.
Remember that I stood(C) before you
    and spoke in their behalf(D)
    to turn your wrath away from them.

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14 (A)If you are insulted (B)for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory[a] and of God rests upon you. 15 But (C)let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or (D)as a meddler. 16 Yet (E)if anyone suffers as a (F)Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God (G)in that name.

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  1. 1 Peter 4:14 Some manuscripts insert and of power

14 If you are insulted because of the name of Christ,(A) you are blessed,(B) for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. 15 If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler. 16 However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.(C)

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17 For (A)it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

18 For Christ also (B)suffered[a] (C)once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, (D)that he might bring us to God, being put to death (E)in the flesh but made alive (F)in the spirit,

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  1. 1 Peter 3:18 Some manuscripts died

17 For it is better, if it is God’s will,(A) to suffer for doing good(B) than for doing evil. 18 For Christ also suffered once(C) for sins,(D) the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.(E) He was put to death in the body(F) but made alive in the Spirit.(G)

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13 Now (A)who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

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13 Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?(A)

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32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”

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32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”

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They encircle me with words of hate,
    and attack me (A)without cause.
In return for my love they (B)accuse me,
    but I (C)give myself to prayer.[a]
So they (D)reward me evil for good,
    and hatred for my love.

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  1. Psalm 109:4 Hebrew but I am prayer

With words of hatred(A) they surround me;
    they attack me without cause.(B)
In return for my friendship they accuse me,
    but I am a man of prayer.(C)
They repay me evil for good,(D)
    and hatred for my friendship.

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if I have repaid (A)my friend[a] with evil
    or (B)plundered my enemy without cause,

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  1. Psalm 7:4 Hebrew the one at peace with me

if I have repaid my ally with evil
    or without cause(A) have robbed my foe—

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21 Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, (A)so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has (B)returned me evil for good.

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21 David had just said, “It’s been useless—all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing.(A) He has paid(B) me back evil(C) for good.

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16 They were (A)a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

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16 Night and day they were a wall(A) around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

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12 Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” And the Lord said, (A)“They will surrender you.”

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12 Again David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender(A) me and my men to Saul?”

And the Lord said, “They will.”

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