Must you take personal revenge against those who have wronged you?

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Rizal Philippines
August 28, 2016

I watched a TV show on Bible exposition and the preacher was asked if it is OK to take revenge, as a Christina against those who killed his wife.  The preacher said we should leave it to the Lord to take vengeance against the sinners (especially those who violated the 10 commandments)

Says Romans 12:19

18If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone. 19Do not avenge yourselves, beloved,but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written:“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”20On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Leave it to the Lord.  Thus in my 33 years of business experience, I have avoided litigation and avoid harboring grudges vs enemies, those who malign me, or steal our resources.  And indeed the passage is true.  Employees who steal from us suffer misfortunes:  parents and relatives die, they die.  But on the other hand we re still alive.

After vengeance from the Lord comes hell.  Do you believe there is hell?…

There is hell.   Those who sin and have not repeneted will go to hell.  Various bible verses say there is hell.

Revelation 14: 10 - 11

He also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”

Revelation 20:4

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Mark 9:47
And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,