Bible Verses About 'Eye For An Eye'

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 1:8

But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Exodus 21:23-24

If someone injures another person, what they have done must be paid back in kind: injury for injury.

Leviticus 24:19

You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’

Matthew 5:38

But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.

Matthew 5:39

Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: 'It is mine to avenge; I will repay,' says the Lord.

Romans 12:19

If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.

Romans 12:20

For we know him who said, 'It is mine to avenge; I will repay,' and again, 'The Lord will judge his people.'

Hebrews 10:30

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.

Ephesians 4:26

The wicked pays back evil for good; the righteous shows grace to the needy.

Proverbs 17:13