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Bible Verses About Revenge
Find Bible verses about revenge — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about revenge?
The Bible addresses revenge with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Romans 12:19
“Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."”
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Proverbs 24:29
“Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."”
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Genesis 34:25
“It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.”
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Genesis 4:23
“Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.”
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Judges 15:7
“Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease."”
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Judges 15:5
“When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.”
Daniel 11:7
“But out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand up in his place, who shall come to the army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevai...”
Genesis 34:13
“The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,”
2 Samuel 13:28
“Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Mark now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Don't be afraid. Haven't I commanded you? Be courageous, a...”
Judges 15:3
“Samson said to them, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them."”
Genesis 34:27
“Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.”
Ezekiel 25:15
“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity;”
Esther 5:14
“Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to t...”
2 Samuel 13:26
“Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." The king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"”
2 Chronicles 25:13
“But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and took mu...”
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