They said to him, "This is your chance! The LORD has told you that he would put your enemy in your power and you could do to him whatever you wanted to." David crept over and cut off a piece of Saul's robe without Saul's knowing it.

and he said to his men, "May the LORD keep me from doing any harm to my master, whom the LORD chose as king! I must not harm him in the least, because he is the king chosen by the LORD!"

Abishai said to David, "God has put your enemy in your power tonight. Now let me plunge his own spear through him and pin him to the ground with just one blow---I won't have to strike twice!"

By the living LORD," David continued, "I know that the LORD himself will kill Saul, either when his time comes to die a natural death or when he dies in battle.

But David said to Abishai and his brother Joab, "Who asked your opinion? Are you going to give me trouble? I am the one who is king of Israel now, and no Israelite will be put to death today."

I have never been glad when my enemies suffered, or pleased when they met with disaster;

All those who work for me know that I have always welcomed strangers.

Never correct conceited people; they will hate you for it. But if you correct the wise, they will respect you.

Jesus turned around and said to Peter, "Get away from me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my way, because these thoughts of yours don't come from God, but from human nature."

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.

He and Aaron assembled the whole community in front of the rock, and Moses said, "Listen, you rebels! Do we have to get water out of this rock for you?"

But the LORD reprimanded Moses and Aaron. He said, "Because you did not have enough faith to acknowledge my holy power before the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land that I promised to give them."

Job answered, "You are talking nonsense! When God sends us something good, we welcome it. How can we complain when he sends us trouble?" Even in all this suffering Job said nothing against God.

Who do you think will hear all your words? Who inspired you to speak like this?

It is up to us to decide the case.

He asks, "How could I lie and say I am wrong? I am fatally wounded, but I am sinless."

He likes the company of evil people and goes around with sinners.

(SEE 35:1)

I am going to answer you and your friends too.

So I am ashamed of all I have said and repent in dust and ashes.

"Who can understand the human heart? There is nothing else so deceitful; it is too sick to be healed.

Peter spoke up and said to Jesus, "I will never leave you, even though all the rest do!"

Keep watch and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

One of those who were with Jesus drew his sword and struck at the High Priest's slave, cutting off his ear.

They are wrong about sin, because they do not believe in me;

Paul said to him, "God will certainly strike you---you whitewashed wall! You sit there to judge me according to the Law, yet you break the Law by ordering them to strike me!"

Paul answered, "My fellow Israelites, I did not know that he was the High Priest. The scripture says, 'You must not speak evil of the ruler of your people.' "

"I myself thought that I should do everything I could against the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.

Many times I had them punished in the synagogues and tried to make them deny their faith. I was so furious with them that I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

Words of thanksgiving and cursing pour out from the same mouth. My friends, this should not happen!

Do not pay back evil with evil or cursing with cursing; instead, pay back with a blessing, because a blessing is what God promised to give you when he called you.