WIST Quotations

Bible, Vol. 2. New Testament -- Book 6. Letter to the Romans 12:14 (Rom 12:14) [NRSV (2021 ed.)]

Dave — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:10:20 +0000

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.

[εὐλογεῖτε τοὺς διώκοντας [ὑμᾶς], εὐλογεῖτε καὶ μὴ καταρᾶσθε.]

The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Book 6. Letter to the Romans 12:14 (Rom 12:14) [NRSV (2021 ed.)]
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(Source (Greek)). Alternate translations:

Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
[KJV (1611)]

Bless those who persecute you: never curse them, bless them.
[JB (1966)]

Bless your persecutors; never curse them, bless them.
[NJB (1985)]

Ask God to bless those who persecute you -- yes, ask him to bless, not to curse.
[GNT (1992 ed.)]

Bless people who harass you -- bless and don’t curse them.
[CEB (2011)]

Scalzi, John -- “Convention Harassment Policy Follow-Up,” blog entry (5 Jul 2013)

Dave — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:51:53 +0000

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it’s not everyone else that’s the problem.

John Scalzi (b. 1969) American writer
“Convention Harassment Policy Follow-Up,” blog entry (5 Jul 2013)
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Shakespeare, William -- Merchant of Venice, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 53ff (3.1.53-72) (1597)

Dave — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:34:01 +0000

SHYLOCK: He hath disgraced me and
hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses,
mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted
my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies —
and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not
a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,
senses, affections, passions? Fed with the
same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to
the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer
as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not
bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you
poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall
we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong
a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian
example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I
will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the
instruction.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Merchant of Venice, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 53ff (3.1.53-72) (1597)
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