Luke 14:31
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
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Luke 14:31
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
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Luke 14:32
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.
Proverbs 20:18
Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!
Proverbs 25:8
Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
2 Samuel 2:26
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
2 Samuel 2:27
Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”
2 Kings 10:4
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”
2 Samuel 2:14
Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and compete before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”
1 Kings 20:11
The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’ ”
2 Kings 14:10
You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?”
2 Chronicles 25:19
You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you and Judah with you?’ ”
2 Chronicles 35:21
But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”
Proverbs 18:6
A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
Proverbs 20:3
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
Isaiah 27:4
Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
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Joshua 24:19
Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.
Joshua 24:20
If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”
Joshua 24:21
The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve Yahweh.”
Joshua 24:22
Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”
Joshua 24:23
“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”
Ruth 1:15
She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”
Joshua 24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
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Deuteronomy 20:2
It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
Deuteronomy 20:8
The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”
Deuteronomy 23:9
When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.
Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Judges 7:3
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
Acts 15:38
But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.
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Proverbs 24:6
for by wise guidance you wage your war, and victory is in many advisors.
Proverbs 26:17
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
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Ecclesiastes 3:8
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
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Ephesians 6:11
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Ephesians 6:13
Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
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