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Prov 17:13

13 If a man pays back evil for good, evil will never leave his house.

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Who invited evil into the house in the first place? We also might ask, why would anyone ever pay back evil for good? Yet apparently there must be someone somewhere who does such a thing otherwise it would not have been written for us to ponder upon. This does serve as sort of a warning against such behavior. If someone does us good, then we should certainly do good in return. That seems to be obvious yet this was written because it may not be as obvious as we think. It just might be if we do not pay back good with good we are in fact paying it back with evil. That is to say we cannot simply accept good freely, without consider repayment in some manner. True we think of doing a good deed for another never expecting anything in return, but in doing so are we forcing the recipient of our good deed to repay us with evil? That would not be a good situation at all. So we should do good and we should repay good with more good, and the more good continues to even more good, then evil will never get comfortable in our house.