And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you.
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
And Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”
If anyone returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.
Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft.
Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?
Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,
If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to put them to death.
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
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