Matthew 5:25
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25 (A)Agree with your adversary quickly, (B)while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
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Luke 12:58-59
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58 (A)When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, make every effort (B)along the way to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge, the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. 59 I tell you, you shall not depart from there till you have paid the very last mite.”
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Proverbs 25:8
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8 (A)Do not go hastily to [a]court;
For what will you do in the end,
When your neighbor has put you to shame?
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- Proverbs 25:8 Lit. contend or bring a lawsuit
Hebrews 3:13
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13 but [a]exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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- Hebrews 3:13 encourage
Hebrews 3:7
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Be Faithful(A)
7 Therefore, as (B)the Holy Spirit says:
(C)“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Luke 14:31-32
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31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.
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Isaiah 55:6-7
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6 (A)Seek the Lord while He may be (B)found,
Call upon Him while He is near.
7 (C)Let the [a]wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man (D)his thoughts;
Let him return to the Lord,
(E)And He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
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- Isaiah 55:7 Lit. man of iniquity
Luke 13:24-25
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24 (A)“Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for (B)many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 (C)When once the Master of the house has risen up and (D)shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, (E)‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, (F)‘I do not know you, where you are from,’
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Hebrews 12:17
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17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was (A)rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
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Proverbs 6:1-5
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Dangerous Promises
6 My son, (A)if you become [a]surety for your friend,
If you have [b]shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
2 You are snared by the words of your mouth;
You are taken by the words of your mouth.
3 So do this, my son, and deliver yourself;
For you have come into the hand of your friend:
Go and humble yourself;
Plead with your friend.
4 (B)Give no sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids.
5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
And like a bird from the hand of the [c]fowler.
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- Proverbs 6:1 guaranty or collateral
- Proverbs 6:1 Lit. struck
- Proverbs 6:5 One who catches birds in a trap or snare
Job 22:21
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21 “Now acquaint yourself with Him, and (A)be at peace;
Thereby good will come to you.
1 Kings 22:26-27
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26 So the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son; 27 and say, ‘Thus says the king: “Put this fellow in (A)prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”
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2 Corinthians 6:2
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2 For He says:
(A)“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
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Psalm 32:6
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6 (A)For this cause everyone who is godly shall (B)pray to You
In a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters
They shall not come near him.
Genesis 33:3-11
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3 Then he crossed over before them and (A)bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
4 (B)But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, (C)and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. 5 And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, “Who are these with you?”
So he said, “The children (D)whom God has graciously given your servant.” 6 Then the maidservants came near, they and their children, and bowed down. 7 And Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down. Afterward Joseph and Rachel came near, and they bowed down.
8 Then Esau said, “What do you mean by (E)all this company which I met?”
And he said, “These are (F)to find favor in the sight of my lord.”
9 But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.”
10 And Jacob said, “No, please, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present from my hand, inasmuch as I (G)have seen your face as though I had seen the face of God, and you were pleased with me. 11 Please, take (H)my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt (I)graciously with me, and because I have [a]enough.” (J)So he urged him, and he took it.
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- Genesis 33:11 Lit. all
Genesis 32:3-8
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3 Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother (A)in the land of Seir, (B)the [a]country of Edom. 4 And he commanded them, saying, (C)“Speak thus to my lord Esau, ‘Thus your servant Jacob says: “I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now. 5 (D)I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that (E)I may find favor in your sight.” ’ ”
6 Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and (F)he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” 7 So Jacob was greatly afraid and (G)distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies. 8 And he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and [b]attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.”
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- Genesis 32:3 Lit. field
- Genesis 32:8 Lit. strikes
1 Samuel 25:17-35
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17 Now therefore, know and consider what you will do, for (A)harm is determined against our master and against all his household. For he is such a (B)scoundrel[a] that one cannot speak to him.”
18 Then Abigail made haste and (C)took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five seahs of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys. 19 And she said to her servants, (D)“Go on before me; see, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
20 So it was, as she rode on the donkey, that she went down under cover of the hill; and there were David and his men, coming down toward her, and she met them. 21 Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belongs to him. And he has (E)repaid me evil for good. 22 (F)May God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I (G)leave (H)one male of all who belong to him by morning light.”
23 Now when Abigail saw David, she (I)dismounted quickly from the donkey, fell on her face before David, and bowed down to the ground. 24 So she fell at his feet and said: “On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity be! And please let your maidservant [b]speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant. 25 Please, let not my lord [c]regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: [d]Nabal is his name, and folly is with him! But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent. 26 Now therefore, my lord, (J)as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has (K)held you back from coming to bloodshed and from (L)avenging[e] yourself with your own hand, now then, (M)let your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be as Nabal. 27 And now (N)this present which your maidservant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. 28 Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant. For (O)the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord (P)fights the battles of the Lord, (Q)and evil is not found in you throughout your days. 29 Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life, but the life of my lord shall be (R)bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; and the lives of your enemies He shall (S)sling out, as from the pocket of a sling. 30 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has done for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you (T)ruler over Israel, 31 that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your maidservant.”
32 Then David said to Abigail: (U)“Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 33 And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have (V)kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand. 34 For indeed, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has (W)kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely (X)by morning light no males would have been left to Nabal!” 35 So David received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, (Y)“Go up in peace to your house. See, I have heeded your voice and (Z)respected your person.”
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- 1 Samuel 25:17 Lit. son of Belial
- 1 Samuel 25:24 speak to you
- 1 Samuel 25:25 pay attention to
- 1 Samuel 25:25 Lit. Fool
- 1 Samuel 25:26 Lit. saving yourself
Genesis 32:13-22
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13 So he lodged there that same night, and took what [a]came to his hand as (A)a present for Esau his brother: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. 16 Then he delivered them to the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put some distance between successive droves.” 17 And he commanded the first one, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose are these in front of you?’ 18 then you shall say, ‘They are your servant Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us.’ ” 19 So he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, “In this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him; 20 and also say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.’ ” For he said, “I will (B)appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.” 21 So the present went on over before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.
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22 And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons, (C)and crossed over the ford of Jabbok.
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- Genesis 32:13 he had received
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