Luke 14:32
Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.
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Luke 14:32
Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.
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Luke 14:31
Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Proverbs 17:14
The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.
Proverbs 25:8
Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?
Proverbs 20:18
Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.
2 Samuel 2:14
And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men give a test of their strength before us. And Joab said, Let them do so.
2 Samuel 2:27
And Joab said, By the living God, if you had not given the word, the people would have gone on attacking their countrymen till the morning.
2 Kings 10:4
But they were full of fear, and said, The two kings have gone down before him: how may we keep our place?
2 Kings 14:10
It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
Acts 12:20
Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon: and they came to him, all together, and having made friends with Blastus, the controller of the king's house, they made a request for peace, because their country was dependent on the king's country for its food.
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Joshua 24:19
And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
Joshua 24:20
If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.
Joshua 24:21
And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
Joshua 24:22
And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
Joshua 24:23
Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
Ruth 1:15
And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.
Joshua 24:15
And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
Matthew 6:24
No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
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Luke 12:58
For if anyone has a cause at law against you, and you are going with him before the ruler, make an attempt, on the way, to come to an agreement with him, for if you do not, he may take you before the judge and the judge will give you up to the police, and they will put you in prison.
Luke 19:42
Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
Job 22:21
Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.
Isaiah 27:5
Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.
Matthew 5:25
Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.
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Deuteronomy 20:8
And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.
Judges 7:3
So now, let it be given out to the people that anyone who is shaking with fear is to go back from Mount Galud. So twenty-two thousand of the people went back, but there were still ten thousand.
Acts 15:38
But Paul was of the opinion that it was not right to take with them one who had gone away from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with the work.
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Luke 19:14
But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.
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