Quotes about Recompense
How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!
— Thomas Becket
burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.
— Exodus 21:25
Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and His arm establishes His rule. His reward is with Him, and His recompense accompanies Him.
— Isaiah 40:10
Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
— Judges 1:7
Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, “Say to Daughter Zion: See, your Savior comes! Look, His reward is with Him, and His recompense goes before Him.”
— Isaiah 62:11
What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks? How due! Yet all His good proved ill in me And wrought but malice. Lifted up so high
— John Milton
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
— Exodus 21:24
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
— Confucius
So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.
— Isaiah 59:18
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense thee.'—Matt. vi. 6.
— Andrew Murray
in Augustine with this expression, - "God crowns not our merits but his own gifts; and the name of reward is given not to what is due to our merits, but to the recompense of grace previously bestowed?"
— John Calvin
Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.
— Revelation 18:6