1 Samuel 25:33

WEB

³³Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

KJV

³³And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

BSB

³³Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

FBV

³³May you be rewarded for your wise decisions, for preventing me from shedding blood today and taking my own revenge.

Extra References

1 Samuel 25:26

²⁶Now 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.

Proverbs 28:23

²³One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Proverbs 25:12

¹²As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

Psalms 141:5

⁵Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Proverbs 9:9

⁹Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 27:21

²¹The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

Proverbs 17:10

¹⁰A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

1 Samuel 24:19

¹⁹For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may the LORD reward you good for that which you have done to me today.

1 Samuel 25:31

³¹that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”

1 Samuel 26:9-10

⁹David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?” ¹⁰David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.