Leaving the Getting Even to God

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth! Do the same thing to the other person that he or she first did to you.  It’s in the Bible, right?”  If you are saying the right to extract vengeance or to inflict on someone the same injury they inflicted upon you is biblical, I have to say, “No, that’s not in the Bible.”

            “Just a minute,” you may be saying, “isn’t there something in the Bible about “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth?”  In response to that question, I would answer, “Yes, there is!”  But it doesn’t mean what you think it means.