how to react to cruelty

if someone has done us wrong, our tendency is to avenge ourselves and make them pay.
but what does the Bible exhorts us to do when we experience rudeness from others? are we to act on our instincts and take our own revenge? isn't it just plain fair to inflict them pain and make them suffer?

i found this from the JW website.
it's a good reading. you could find practical counsels and advise from the Bible on what we ought to do when we experience cruelty from others.

of course, it's not easy to do, but i am sure it's all worth it to control ourselves and remain in God's love. (sobraaaaaang hirap, but we really need to try.)

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How to React to Cruelty

God’s Word offers practical counsel about how to deal with cruelty. Consider how you can apply the following words of wisdom:

“Do not say: ‘I will pay back evil!’ Hope in Jehovah, and he will save you.”—Proverbs 20:22.

“If you see any oppression of the one of little means and the violent taking away of judgment and of righteousness . . . , do not be amazed over the affair, for one that is higher than the high one is watching.”—Ecclesiastes 5:8.

“Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth.”—Matthew 5:5.

“All things, therefore, that you want men to do to you, you also must likewise do to them.”—Matthew 7:12.

“Return evil for evil to no one. Provide fine things in the sight of all men. If possible, as far as it depends upon you, be peaceable with all men. Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but yield place to the wrath; for it is written: ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says Jehovah.’”—Romans 12:17-19.

“Even Christ suffered for you, leaving you a model for you to follow his steps closely. . . . When he was being reviled, he did not go reviling in return. When he was suffering, he did not go threatening, but kept on committing himself to the one who judges righteously.”—1 Peter 2:21-23.