Quotes about Retribution

Let the punishment match the offense.

Let the punishment match the offense.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.

The old creation lives by pride and retribution: I stand up for myself, and if someone gets in my way I try to get even. We've been there, done that, and got the scars to prove it.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed.

you seven times more for your sins. I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit." — LEVITICUS 26:16-20

Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.

If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”