As you are going with your adversary to the ruler, make an effort to settle with him on the way. Then he won’t drag you before the judge, the judge hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison.

你同告你的对头去见官，还在路上，务要尽力地和他了结；恐怕他拉你到官面前，官交付差役，差役把你下在监里。

你同告你的冤家去见官，还在路上，要尽力跟他和解，免得他拉你到法官面前，法官把你交给法警，法警把你下在监里。

你同告你的冤家去见官，还在路上，要尽力跟他和解，免得他拉你到法官面前，法官把你交给法警，法警把你下在监里。

如果你和控告你的人要去对薄公堂，要尽量在路上跟对方和解，以免被拉到审判官面前，审判官派差役把你关进监牢。

你和你的对头去见官长，还在路上的时候，应当尽力向他求和，免得他把你拉到法官面前，法官把你交给差役，差役把你关在监里。

你和你的对头去见官的时候，在路上就当尽力与他和解，免得他把你拉到审判官面前，审判官把你交给狱卒，狱卒就把你投进监狱。

你同告你的對頭去見官，還在路上，務要盡力地和他了結；恐怕他拉你到官面前，官交付差役，差役把你下在監裏。

你同告你的冤家去見官，還在路上，要盡力跟他和解，免得他拉你到法官面前，法官把你交給法警，法警把你下在監裏。

你同告你的冤家去見官，還在路上，要盡力跟他和解，免得他拉你到法官面前，法官把你交給法警，法警把你下在監裏。

如果你和控告你的人要去對簿公堂，要盡量在路上跟對方和解，以免被拉到審判官面前，審判官派差役把你關進監牢。

你和你的對頭去見官長，還在路上的時候，應當盡力向他求和，免得他把你拉到法官面前，法官把你交給差役，差役把你關在監裡。

你同告你的對頭去見官，還在路上時、要用功和他了結；恐怕他把你拖走到審判官面前，審判官把你送交給差役，差役就把你丟在監裏。

你和你的對頭去見官的時候，在路上就當盡力與他和解，免得他把你拉到審判官面前，審判官把你交給獄卒，獄卒就把你投進監獄。

與訟爾者、往見有司、途間當力求解釋、恐曳爾於士師、士師付爾於吏、吏下爾於獄、

與訟爾者往見有司、途間當盡心求釋、恐曳爾於眾士師、士師發爾於吏、吏下爾於獄、

爾偕訟爾者往見有司、尚於途間、當盡力求釋、恐彼曳爾於士師、士師付爾於吏、吏下爾於獄、

方爾與控爾者、同詣有司途中、亟宜竭力求釋；不然、彼將扭爾至官、官將付爾於吏、吏將下爾於獄矣。

As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled on the way, or your adversary may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

Suppose someone has a claim against you, and you are on your way to court. Try hard to settle the matter on the way. If you don’t, that person may drag you off to the judge. The judge may turn you over to the officer. And the officer may throw you into prison.

As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.

When you are on the way to court with your accuser, try to settle the matter before you get there. Otherwise, your accuser may drag you before the judge, who will hand you over to an officer, who will throw you into prison.

For when you are going with your accuser to appear before the magistrate, on the way, make an effort to settle with him, so that he does not drag you before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, make every effort 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.

For as thou art going with thine adversary before the magistrate, on the way give diligence to be quit of him; lest haply he drag thee unto the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the officer, and the officer shall cast thee into prison.

As you are going with your adversary to the ruler, make an effort to settle with him on the way. Then he won’t drag you before the judge, the judge hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison.

When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate,[ as thou art] in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

As you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, so that he will not drag you before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

But he wasn’t willing. Instead, he went and threw him into prison until he could pay what was owed.

So if you are offering your gift on the altar, and there you remember that your brother or sister has something against you,leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled with your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.Reach a settlement quickly with your adversary while you’re on the way with him to the court, or your adversary will hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.Truly I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny.

Don’t take a matter to court hastily. Otherwise, what will you do afterward if your opponent humiliates you?Make your case with your opponent without revealing another’s secret;

For he says: At an acceptable time I listened to you, and in the day of salvation I helped you. See, now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation!

Then an upright man could reason with him, and I would escape from my Judge forever.

Therefore let everyone who is faithful pray to you immediately. When great floodwaters come, they will not reach him.

Come to terms with God and be at peace; in this way good will come to you.

Abigail hurried, taking two hundred loaves of bread, two clay jars of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.Then she said to her male servants,“ Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband, Nabal.As she rode the donkey down a mountain pass hidden from view, she saw David and his men coming toward her and met them.David had just said,“ I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness for nothing. He was not missing anything, yet he paid me back evil for good.May God punish me and do so severely if I let any of his males survive until morning.”When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey and knelt down with her face to the ground and paid homage to David.She knelt at his feet and said,“ The guilt is mine, my lord, but please let your servant speak to you directly. Listen to the words of your servant.My lord should pay no attention to this worthless fool Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means‘ stupid,’ and stupidity is all he knows. I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.Now my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live— it is the LORD who kept you from participating in bloodshed and avenging yourself by your own hand— may your enemies and those who intend to harm my lord be like Nabal.Let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD is certain to make a lasting dynasty for my lord because he fights the LORD’s battles. Throughout your life, may evil not be found in you.“ Someone is pursuing you and intends to take your life. My lord’s life is tucked safely in the place where the LORD your God protects the living, but he is flinging away your enemies’ lives like stones from a sling.When the LORD does for my lord all the good he promised you and appoints you ruler over Israel,there will not be remorse or a troubled conscience for my lord because of needless bloodshed or my lord’s revenge. And when the LORD does good things for my lord, may you remember me your servant.”Then David said to Abigail,“ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today!May your discernment be blessed, and may you be blessed. Today you kept me from participating in bloodshed and avenging myself by my own hand.Otherwise, as surely as the LORD God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn’t have had any males left by morning light.”Then David accepted what she had brought him and said,“ Go home in peace. See, I have heard what you said and have granted your request.”

in which he also went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor or entered into an agreement with a stranger,you have been snared by the words of your mouth— trapped by the words from your mouth.Do this, then, my son, and free yourself, for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power: Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.Don’t give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.Escape like a gazelle from a hunter, like a bird from a hunter’s trap.

“ Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?If not, while the other is still far off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.

Seek the LORD while he may be found; call to him while he is near.

When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.He commanded them,“ You are to say to my lord Esau,‘ This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female slaves. I have sent this message to inform my lord, in order to seek your favor.’”When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said,“ We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you— and he has four hundred men with him.”Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; he divided the people with him into two camps, along with the flocks, herds, and camels.He thought,“ If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining one can escape.”Then Jacob said,“ God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me,‘ Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,’I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. Indeed, I crossed over the Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.Please rescue me from my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.You have said,‘ I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.’”He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, twenty rams,thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them,“ Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”And he told the first one,“ When my brother Esau meets you and asks,‘ Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you?’then tell him,‘ They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’”He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals,“ Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.You are also to say,‘ Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought,“ I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night.During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.Then he said to Jacob,“ Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob said,“ I will not let you go unless you bless me.”“ What is your name?” the man asked.“ Jacob,” he replied.“ Your name will no longer be Jacob,” he said.“ It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear his voice,do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,where your ancestors tested me, tried me, and saw my worksfor forty years. Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation and said,“ They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.”So I swore in my anger,“ They will not enter my rest.”Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.

Yet now you are obsessed with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large ransom lead you astray.

“ Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be ableonce the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying,‘ Lord, open up for us!’ He will answer you,‘ I don’t know you or where you’re from.’Then you will say,‘ We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’But he will say,‘ I tell you, I don’t know you or where you’re from. Get away from me, all you evildoers!’There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that place, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown out.

“ Understand this, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to rescue you.