Luke 12:58 Cross References - DouayRheims

⁵⁸ And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst thou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps he draw thee to he judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter, and the exacter cast thee into prison.

³ And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom: ⁴ And he commanded them, saying: Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy brother Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and have been with him until this day: ⁵ I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and womenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight. ⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau, thy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men. ⁷ Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies, ⁸ Saying: If Esau come to one company, and destroy it, the other company that is left, shall escape. ⁹ And Jacob said: O God of my fahter Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee. ¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies. ¹¹ Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children. ¹² Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which connot be numbered for multitude. ¹³ And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau, ¹⁴ Two hundred she goats, twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, ¹⁵ Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she asses, and ten of their foals. ¹⁶ And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove. ¹⁷ And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these before thee? ¹⁸ Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob's: he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau; and he cometh after us. ¹⁹ In like manner he commanded the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when ye find him. ²⁰ And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me. ²¹ So the presents went before him, but himself lodged that night in the camp. ²² And rising early, he took his two wives and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc. ²³ And when all things were brought over that belonged to him, ²⁴ He remained alone; and behold, a man wrestled with him till morning. ²⁵ And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank. ²⁶ And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. ²⁷ And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob. ²⁸ But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

¹⁸ Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses: ¹⁹ And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal. ²⁰ And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them. ²¹ And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good. ²² May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I leave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth against the wall. ²³ And when Abigail saw David, she made haste and lighted off the ass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground. ²⁴ And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and hear the words of thy servant. ²⁵ Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest. ²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord. ²⁷ Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought to thee, my lord: and give it to the young men that follow thee, my lord. ²⁸ Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the battles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life. ²⁹ For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling. ³⁰ And when the Lord shall have done to thee, my lord, all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have made thee prince over Israel, ³¹ This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of heart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged thyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt remember thy handmaid. ³² And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech: ³³ And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand. ³⁴ Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath withholden me from doing thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall. ³⁵ And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and honoured thy face.

²¹ Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.

⁷ Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.

¹⁷ Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and judgment thou shalt recover. ¹⁸ Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.

⁶ For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

²² Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

¹ My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger, ² Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words. ³ Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend: ⁴ Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber. ⁵ Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁸ The things which thy eyes have seen, utter not hastily in a quarrel: lest afterward thou mayst not be able to make amends, when thou hast dishonoured thy friend. ⁹ Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover not the secret to a stranger:

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.

²³ If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother hath anything against thee; ²⁴ Leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother, and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift. ²⁵ Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. ²⁶ Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing.

³⁰ And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he paid the debt.

²⁴ Strive to enter by the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter and shall not be able. ²⁵ But when the master of the house shall be gone in and shall shut the door, you shall begin to stand without; and knock at the door, saying: Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. ²⁶ Then you shall begin to say: We have eaten and drunk in thy presence: and thou hast taught in our streets. ²⁷ And he shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. ²⁸ There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God: and you yourselves thrust out.

³¹ Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him? ³² Or else, while the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he desireth conditions of peace.

² For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time: behold, now is the day of salvation.

⁷ Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his voice, ⁸ Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert, ⁹ Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works, ¹⁰ Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways. ¹¹ As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest. ¹² Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God. ¹³ But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

¹⁹ In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison:

⁷ And when the thousand years shall be finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go forth and seduce the nations which are over the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog: and shall gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.