2 Timothy 4:14 Cross References - NSB

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: God will render to him according to his works.

¹² »I will let Jehovah decide which one of us has done right. I pray that Jehovah will punish you for what you are doing to me. However, I will not do anything to you.

³⁹ »Today, even though I am the anointed king, these men, Zeruiah’s sons, are too strong for me to control. May Jehovah repay these wicked men, as their evil deed deserves.«

⁴ Pay them back for what they have done, for their evil deeds. Pay them back for what their hands have done, and give them recompense.

¹² Loving-kindness belongs to you, O Jehovah. You reward a person based on what he has done.

⁵ They reward me with evil instead of good and with hatred instead of love. ⁶ Appoint the evil one to oppose him. Let an accuser stand at his right hand. ⁷ When he stands trial, let him be found guilty. Let his prayer be considered sinful. ⁸ Let his days be few in number. Let someone else take his place. ⁹ Let his children become fatherless and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his children wander around and beg. Let them seek help far from their ruined homes. ¹¹ Let a creditor take everything he owns. Let strangers steal what he has worked for. ¹² Let no one be kind to him anymore. Let no one show any pity to his fatherless children. ¹³ Let his descendants be cut off and their family name be wiped out by the next generation. ¹⁴ Let Jehovah remember the guilt of his ancestors and not wipe out his mother's sin. ¹⁵ Let their guilt and sin always remain on record in front of Jehovah. Let Jehovah remove every memory of him from the earth, ¹⁶ for he did not remember to be kind. He drove oppressed, needy, and brokenhearted people to their graves. ¹⁷ He loved to put curses on others, so he, too, was cursed. He did not like to bless others, so he never received a blessing. ¹⁸ He wore cursing as though it were clothing; so cursing entered his body like water and his bones like oil. ¹⁹ Let cursing be his clothing, a belt he always wears. ²⁰ This is how Jehovah rewards those who accuse me, those who say evil things against me.

¹⁵ Then I said: »O Jehovah you understand. Remember me and help me. Let me have revenge on those who persecute me. Do not be so patient with them that they succeed in killing me. Remember that it is for your sake that I have suffered reproach.

¹⁹ Do pay close attention to me, O Jehovah! Listen to what my opponents are saying! ²⁰ Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before you to speak good on their behalf. I tried to turn away your wrath from them. ²¹ Therefore, give their children over to famine and deliver them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death and their young men struck down by the sword in battle. ²² Let an outcry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring raiders upon them. For they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet. ²³ Yet You, O Jehovah, know all their deadly designs against me. Do not forgive their iniquity or blot out their sin from your sight. But may they be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger!

³³ The crowd of Jews thrust Alexander forward. Alexander motioned with his hand and wanted to make a defense to the people. ³⁴ They perceived that he was a Jew and all with one voice shouted for two hours: »Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.«

¹⁹ Dearly beloved, do not avenge yourselves, instead leave room for divine punishment, for it is written: Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 32:35)

⁶ It is a righteous thing for God to repay with affliction (great suffering and distress) those who afflict you.

²⁰ Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander. I handed them over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.

¹⁰ They cried with a loud voice, saying: »How long, O Lord, holy and true, before you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?«

⁶ »Render to her even as she rendered to you. Pay back double to her, double according to her works: in the cup that she has filled, fill double for her!

²⁰ »Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God pronounced judgment for you against her.«

¹⁶ If any man see his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he will ask, and God will give him life for them that sin not leading to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I do not say that he should make request concerning this.