你同告你的对头还在路上，就赶紧与他和息，恐怕他把你送给审判官，审判官交付衙役，你就下在监里了。

你同告你的冤家还在路上，就要赶快与他讲和，免得他把你送交给法官，法官交给警卫，你就下在监里了。

你同告你的冤家还在路上，就要赶快与他讲和，免得他把你送交给法官，法官交给警卫，你就下在监里了。

“趁着你和告你的人还在去法庭的路上，你要赶紧与对方和解。不然，他会把你交给审判官，审判官会把你交给差役关进监牢。

趁着你和你的对头还在路上的时候，要赶快与他和解，免得他抓你去见法官，法官把你交给狱警，关在监里。

你要趁着与你的对头还在路上的时候，赶快与他和解，免得他把你交给审判官，审判官把你交给差役，你就会被投进监狱了。

你同告你的對頭還在路上，就趕緊與他和息，恐怕他把你送給審判官，審判官交付衙役，你就下在監裏了。

你同告你的冤家還在路上，就要趕快與他講和，免得他把你送交給法官，法官交給警衛，你就下在監裏了。

你同告你的冤家還在路上，就要趕快與他講和，免得他把你送交給法官，法官交給警衛，你就下在監裏了。

「趁著你和告你的人還在去法庭的路上，你要趕緊與對方和解。不然，他會把你交給審判官，審判官會把你交給差役關進監牢。

趁著你和你的對頭還在路上的時候，要趕快與他和解，免得他抓你去見法官，法官把你交給獄警，關在監裡。

你同告你的對頭還在路上時，要趕緊向他表示好意；恐怕那告你的對頭把你送交審判官，審判官把你送交衙役，你就被下在監裏。

你要趁著與你的對頭還在路上的時候，趕快與他和解，免得他把你交給審判官，審判官把你交給差役，你就會被投進監獄了。

訟爾者尚偕爾於途、急與之和、恐付爾於士師、士師付爾於隸、而下於獄、

訟爾者、猶在途間、急宜與和、恐送爾於士師、士師發爾於隸、遂下囹圄、

有訟爾者、猶偕爾於途間、亟當與之脩和、恐其解爾於刑官、刑官付爾於吏、而投於獄、

爾與控爾者尚在途中、速與之睦、恐彼送爾於讞官、讞官發爾於隸、而爾下獄矣。

“ Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.

“ Suppose someone has a claim against you and is taking you to court. Settle the matter quickly. Do this while you are still together on the way. If you don’t, you may be handed over to the judge. The judge may hand you over to the officer to be thrown into prison.

Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.

“ When you are on the way to court with your adversary, settle your differences quickly. Otherwise, your accuser may hand you over to the judge, who will hand you over to an officer, and you will be thrown into prison.

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.

Come to good terms with your accuser quickly, while you are with him on the way to court, so that your accuser will not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you will not be thrown into prison.

Agree with your adversary quickly, 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.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art with him in the way; lest haply the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Reach a settlement quickly with your adversary while you’re on the way with him, or your adversary will hand you over to the judge, the judge to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Reach agreement quickly with your accuser while on the way to court, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the warden, and you will be thrown into prison.

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

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.I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.” (niv)

do not bring hastily to court, for what will you do in the end if your neighbor puts you to shame? (niv)

But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called“ Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. (niv)

So, as the Holy Spirit says:“ Today, if you hear his voice, (niv)

“ Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. (niv)

Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. (niv)

“ Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading,‘ Sir, open the door for us.’“ But he will answer,‘ I don’t know you or where you come from.’ (niv)

Therefore let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found; surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them. (niv)

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.He instructed them:“ This is what you are to say to my lord Esau:‘ Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.’”When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said,“ We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well.He thought,“ If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape.” (niv)

The king of Israel then ordered,“ Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king’s sonand say,‘ This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.’” (niv)

Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears, he could not change what he had done. (niv)

“ Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you. (niv)

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth.So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go— to the point of exhaustion— and give your neighbor no rest!Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. (niv)

He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children.“ Who are these with you?” he asked. Jacob answered,“ They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”Then the female servants and their children approached and bowed down.Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.Esau asked,“ What’s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?”“ To find favor in your eyes, my lord,” he said.But Esau said,“ I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”“ No, please!” said Jacob.“ If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably.Please accept the present that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it. (niv)

For he says,“ In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation. (niv)

He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau:two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants,“ Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.”He instructed the one in the lead:“ When my brother Esau meets you and asks,‘ Who do you belong to, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?’then you are to say,‘ They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.’”He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds:“ You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.And be sure to say,‘ Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.’” For he thought,“ I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.”So Jacob’s gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. (niv)

Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.Then she told her servants,“ Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them.David had just said,“ It’s been useless— all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.She fell at his feet and said:“ Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name— his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent.And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.“ Please forgive your servant’s presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord’s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live.Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel,my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant.”David said to Abigail,“ Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said,“ Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.” (niv)