Injury

Physical or mental hurt, usually resulting from the deliberate actions or words of others.

Physical injury

Judges 1:6 See also Genesis 32:25; Luke 10:30; 2 Corinthians 11:23–25

As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Reparation must be made for physical injury

Exodus 21:19, Exodus 21:22; Leviticus 24:17–22

Jesus Christ suffered physical injury

Matthew 16:21; John 19:1

God's people may suffer physical injury for his sake

Jeremiah 38:6; Galatians 6:17; Colossians 1:24; 1 Peter 2:19

Mental injury

Injury by slander

Leviticus 19:16; Proverbs 30:10; Matthew 5:11; Titus 3:2; James 4:11; 1 Peter 2:1

Injury by injustice

Psalm 58:1–2; Ecclesiastes 3:16; Isaiah 59:4–6; Ezekiel 34:4

Jesus Christ suffered mental injury

Matthew 26:59–60; 1 Peter 2:20–23

God's people may suffer mental injury for his sake

Matthew 5:11 See also Psalm 38:20; Jeremiah 15:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 1 Peter 2:19

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

All deliberate injury ruled out by love

Romans 13:10

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Spiritual injury suffered by God's people

See also Isaiah 1:5–6; Jeremiah 10:19, Jeremiah 30:12; Hosea 6:1 Sometimes this is God's judgment.