Bible Cross References
thou goest
Proverbs 25:8
Don't be too quick to go to court about something you have seen. If another witness later proves you wrong, what will you do then?
Proverbs 25:9
If you and your neighbor have a difference of opinion, settle it between yourselves and do not reveal any secrets.
Matthew 5:23-26
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So if you are about to offer your gift to God at the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you,
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leave your gift there in front of the altar, go at once and make peace with your brother, and then come back and offer your gift to God.
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"If someone brings a lawsuit against you and takes you to court, settle the dispute while there is time, before you get to court. Once you are there, you will be turned over to the judge, who will hand you over to the police, and you will be put in jail.
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There you will stay, I tell you, until you pay the last penny of your fine.
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Luke 14:31
If a king goes out with ten thousand men to fight another king who comes against him with twenty thousand men, he will sit down first and decide if he is strong enough to face that other king.
Luke 14:32
If he isn't, he will send messengers to meet the other king to ask for terms of peace while he is still a long way off.
Genesis 32:3-28
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Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the country of Edom.
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He instructed them to say: "I, Jacob, your obedient servant, report to my master Esau that I have been staying with Laban and that I have delayed my return until now.
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I own cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, and slaves. I am sending you word, sir, in the hope of gaining your favor."
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When the messengers came back to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau, and he is already on his way to meet you. He has four hundred men with him."
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Jacob was frightened and worried. He divided into two groups the people who were with him, and also his sheep, goats, cattle, and camels.
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He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks the first group, the other may be able to escape."
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Then Jacob prayed, "God of my grandfather Abraham and God of my father Isaac, hear me! You told me, LORD, to go back to my land and to my relatives, and you would make everything go well for me.
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I am not worth all the kindness and faithfulness that you have shown me, your servant. I crossed the Jordan with nothing but a walking stick, and now I have come back with these two groups.
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Save me, I pray, from my brother Esau. I am afraid---afraid that he is coming to attack us and destroy us all, even the women and children.
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Remember that you promised to make everything go well for me and to give me more descendants than anyone could count, as many as the grains of sand along the seashore."
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After spending the night there, Jacob chose from his livestock as a present for his brother Esau: 200 female goats and 20 males, 200 female sheep and 20 males, 30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows and 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys and 10 males.
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(SEE 32:13)
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(SEE 32:13)
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He divided them into herds and put one of his servants in charge of each herd. He said to them, "Go ahead of me, and leave a space between each herd and the one behind it."
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He ordered the first servant, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'Who is your master? Where are you going? Who owns these animals in front of you?'
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you must answer, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. He sends them as a present to his master Esau. Jacob himself is right behind us.' "
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He gave the same order to the second, the third, and to all the others who were in charge of the herds: "This is what you must say to Esau when you meet him.
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You must say, 'Yes, your servant Jacob is right behind us.' " Jacob was thinking, "I will win him over with the gifts, and when I meet him, perhaps he will forgive me."
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He sent the gifts on ahead of him and spent that night in camp.
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That same night Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two concubines, and his eleven children, and crossed the Jabbok River.
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After he had sent them across, he also sent across all that he owned,
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but he stayed behind, alone. Then a man came and wrestled with him until just before daybreak.
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When the man saw that he was not winning the struggle, he hit Jacob on the hip, and it was thrown out of joint.
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The man said, "Let me go; daylight is coming." "I won't, unless you bless me," Jacob answered.
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"What is your name?" the man asked. "Jacob," he answered.
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The man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob. You have struggled with God and with men, and you have won; so your name will be Israel."
1 Samuel 25:18-35
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Abigail quickly gathered two hundred loaves of bread, two leather bags full of wine, five roasted sheep, two bushels of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dried figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
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Then she said to the servants, "You go on ahead and I will follow you." But she said nothing to her husband.
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She was riding her donkey around a bend on a hillside when suddenly she met David and his men coming toward her.
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David had been thinking, "Why did I ever protect that fellow's property out here in the wilderness? Not a thing that belonged to him was stolen, and this is how he pays me back for the help I gave him!
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May God strike me dead if I don't kill every last one of those men before morning!"
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When Abigail saw David, she quickly dismounted and threw herself on the ground
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at David's feet, and said to him, "Please, sir, listen to me! Let me take the blame.
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Please, don't pay any attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing! He is exactly what his name means---a fool! I wasn't there when your servants arrived, sir.
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It is the LORD who has kept you from taking revenge and killing your enemies. And now I swear to you by the living LORD that your enemies and all who want to harm you will be punished like Nabal.
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Please, sir, accept this present I have brought you, and give it to your men.
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Please forgive me, sir, for any wrong I have done. The LORD will make you king, and your descendants also, because you are fighting his battles; and you will not do anything evil as long as you live.
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If anyone should attack you and try to kill you, the LORD your God will keep you safe, as someone guards a precious treasure. As for your enemies, however, he will throw them away, as someone hurls stones with a sling.
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And when the LORD has done all the good things he has promised you and has made you king of Israel,
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then you will not have to feel regret or remorse, sir, for having killed without cause or for having taken your own revenge. And when the LORD has blessed you, sir, please do not forget me."
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David said to her, "Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!
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Thank God for your good sense and for what you have done today in keeping me from the crime of murder and from taking my own revenge.
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The LORD has kept me from harming you. But I swear by the living God of Israel that if you had not hurried to meet me, all of Nabal's men would have been dead by morning!"
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Then David accepted what she had brought him and said to her, "Go back home and don't worry. I will do what you want."
Job 22:21
Now, Job, make peace with God and stop treating him like an enemy; if you do, then he will bless you.
Job 23:7
I am honest; I could reason with God; he would declare me innocent once and for all.
Psalm 32:6
So all your loyal people should pray to you in times of need; when a great flood of trouble comes rushing in, it will not reach them.
Proverbs 6:1-5
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My child, have you promised to be responsible for someone else's debts?
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Have you been caught by your own words, trapped by your own promises?
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Well then, my child, you are in that person's power, but this is how to get out of it: hurry to him, and beg him to release you.
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Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest.
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Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.
Isaiah 55:6
Turn to the LORD and pray to him, now that he is near.
2 Corinthians 6:2
Hear what God says: "When the time came for me to show you favor, I heard you; when the day arrived for me to save you, I helped you." Listen! This is the hour to receive God's favor; today is the day to be saved!
Hebrews 3:7-13
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So then, as the Holy Spirit says, "If you hear God's voice today,
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do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were when they rebelled against God, as they were that day in the desert when they put him to the test.
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There they put me to the test and tried me, says God, although they had seen what I did for forty years.
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And so I was angry with those people and said, 'They are always disloyal and refuse to obey my commands.'
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I was angry and made a solemn promise: 'They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest!' "
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My friends, be careful that none of you have a heart so evil and unbelieving that you will turn away from the living God.
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Instead, in order that none of you be deceived by sin and become stubborn, you must help one another every day, as long as the word "Today" in the scripture applies to us.
the judge
Luke 13:24-28
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"Do your best to go in through the narrow door; because many people will surely try to go in but will not be able.
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The master of the house will get up and close the door; then when you stand outside and begin to knock on the door and say, 'Open the door for us, sir!' he will answer you, 'I don't know where you come from!'
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Then you will answer, 'We ate and drank with you; you taught in our town!'
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But he will say again, 'I don't know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wicked people!'
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How you will cry and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are thrown out!
Job 36:17
But now you are being punished as you deserve.
Job 36:18
Be careful not to let bribes deceive you, or riches lead you astray.
Psalm 50:22
"Listen to this, you that ignore me, or I will destroy you, and there will be no one to save you.
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Matthew 18:30
But he refused; instead, he had him thrown into jail until he should pay the debt.
1 Peter 3:19
and in his spiritual existence he went and preached to the imprisoned spirits.
Revelation 20:7
After the thousand years are over, Satan will be set loose from his prison,