1 Samuel 25:26
Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live, the Lord has held you back from coming to bloodshed and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.
Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
Note avenging…: Heb. saving thyself
Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has withheld you from blood guiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies and those who seek evil to my lord be as Nabal.
Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah hath withholden thee from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and them that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- as the Lord liveth
- 1 Samuel 25:34; 1 Samuel 22:3; 2 Kings 2:2; 2 Kings 4:6
- and as thy
- 1 Samuel 1:26
- the Lord hath
- 1 Samuel 25:33; Genesis 20:6
- from
- Romans 12:19, 20
- avenging thyself
- Heb. saving thyself.
- Psalm 18:47, 48; Psalm 44:3
- now let
- 2 Samuel 18:32; Jeremiah 29:22; Daniel 4:19