Luke 12:58 Cross References - MLV

⁵⁸ For as you are going on the road with your opponent to be in front of the ruler, work hard to be set-free of him; lest he might drag you down to the judge and the judge might give you to the constable and the constable might cast you into prison.

³ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the field of Edom. ⁴ And he commanded them, saying, Thus you* will say to my lord Esau, Thus says your servant Jacob, I have traveled with Laban and stayed until now. ⁵ And I have oxen and donkeys, flocks and men-servants and maid-servants. And I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.
⁶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau and moreover he comes to meet you and four hundred men with him. ⁷ Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people that were with him and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies. ⁸ And he said, If Esau comes to the one company and slays it, then the company which is left will escape.
⁹ And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who said to me, Return to your country and to your kindred and I will do good things with you, ¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant, because with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I have become two companies.
¹¹ I beseech you, deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he comes and slays me, the mother with the sons. ¹² And you said, I will surely do you good and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
¹³ And he lodged there that night and took of what he had with him a present for Esau his brother: ¹⁴ two hundred female-goats and twenty male-goats, two hundred ewe-lambs and twenty rams, ¹⁵ thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female-donkeys and ten foals.
¹⁶ And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every herd by itself and said to his servants, Pass over before me and put a space between herd and herd. ¹⁷ And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, Whose are you? And where do you go? And whose are these before you? ¹⁸ Then you will say, Your servant Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.
¹⁹ And he commanded also the second and the third and all who followed the herds, saying, On this manner will you* speak to Esau when you* find him, ²⁰ and you* will say, Moreover, behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me. ²¹ So the present passed over before him and he himself lodged that night in the company.
²² And he rose up that night and took his two wives and his two handmaids and his eleven sons and passed over the ford of the Jabbok. ²³ And he took them and sent them over the brook and sent over what he had.
²⁴ And Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. ²⁵ And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained as he wrestled with him.
²⁶ And he said, Let me go, because the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go unless you bless me. ²⁷ And he said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. ²⁸ And he said, Your name will be called Jacob no more, but Israel, because you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.

¹⁸ Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two jugs of wine and five sheep ready dressed and five measures of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs and laid them on donkeys. ¹⁹ And she said to her young men, Go on before me, behold, I come after you*. But she did not tell her husband Nabal. ²⁰ And it was so, as she rode on her donkey and came down by the covert of the mountain, that, behold, David and his men came down toward her and she met them.
²¹ Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him and he has returned me evil for good. ²² God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if I leave of all that pertains to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on the wall.
²³ And when Abigail saw David, she hastened and alighted from her donkey and fell before David on her face and bowed herself to the ground. ²⁴ And she fell at his feet and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity and I beseech you, let your handmaid speak in your ears and hear the words of your handmaid. ²⁵ I beseech you, do not let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and senselessness is with him. But I your handmaid saw not the young men of my lord whom you sent.
²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, since Jehovah has withheld you from blood guiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. ²⁷ And now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
²⁸ I beseech you, forgive the trespass of your handmaid. For Jehovah will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of Jehovah and evil will not be found in you all your days. ²⁹ And though men have risen up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah your God. And the souls of your enemies, them he will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
³⁰ And it will happen, when Jehovah will have done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and will have appointed you prince over Israel, ³¹ that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. And when Jehovah will have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.
³² And David said to Abigail, Praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me, ³³ and your discretion is blessed and you are blessed, who have kept me this day from blood guiltiness and from avenging myself with my own hand. ³⁴ For in very deed, as Jehovah, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, unless you had hastened and come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on the wall.
³⁵ So David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, Go up in peace to your house. See, I have listened to your voice and have accepted your person.

²¹ Acquaint now yourself with him and be at peace. By this good will come to you.

⁷ There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

¹⁷ But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold, ¹⁸ and there will be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.

⁶ On this, let everyone who is devout pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow they will not reach to him.

²² Now consider this, you* who forget God, lest I tear you* in pieces and there is none to deliver:

¹ My son, if you have become a surety for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands for a stranger, ² you are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.
³ Do this now, my son and deliver yourself, because you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself and behave-proudly to neighbor. ⁴ Do not give sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. ⁵ Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁸ Do not go forth hastily to strive. What will you do in the end of it when your neighbor has put you to shame? ⁹ Debate your case with your neighbor himself and disclose not the secret of another,

⁶ Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call you* upon him while he is near.

²³ Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar, and while you are there, you should remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ leave your gift there before the altar and go away. First be reconciled to your brother and then come and offer your gift. ²⁵ Be agreeable with your opponent quickly, until which time you are with him on the road; lest the opponent should give you to the judge and the judge should give you to the attendant and you will be cast into prison. ²⁶ Assuredly I am saying to you, You may never come out from there, until you should have repaid the last copper coin.

³⁰ But he did not wish to, but went and cast him into prison, until he should repay what is owed.

²⁴ Struggle to enter in through the narrow gate, because I am saying to you, Many will be seeking to enter in and will not be strong-enough. ²⁵ From whenever time the householder arose and locked the door and you, being outside, may begin to stand and to knock on the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
And when he has answered the knock, he will say to you, I do not know you or where you are from. ²⁶ Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in your sight and you taught in our streets.
²⁷ And he will say, I say to you, I do not know you or where you are from. Withdraw from me, everyone–the workers of unrighteousness. ²⁸ The weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there, whenever you^\'b0 see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast forth outside.

³¹ Or what king, while traveling to encounter a different king in war, has not sit down first and plans if he is able at ten-thousand to encounter the one who is coming against him with twenty thousand? ³² Otherwise, having sent an ambassador, while still being faraway, he asks for the terms of peace.

² (for he says, ‘I heard you at an acceptable time and I helped you in a day of salvation;' behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation),

⁷ Hence, as the Holy Spirit says, ‘Today if you hear his voice, ⁸ do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, according to the day of the testing in the wilderness, ⁹ where your fathers tested me, they proved me, and then saw my works forty years. ¹⁰ Hence I was displeased with that generation and said, They themselves are habitually misled in their heart s, but they did not know my ways. ¹¹ As I swore in my wrath, they will not be entering into my rest.’ ¹² Beware brethren, lest there will be an evil heart of unbelief in anyone of you, in withdrawing away from the living God. ¹³ But encourage one another every day, until what is called today; in order that not anyone of you may be hardened by the deception of sin.

¹⁹ in which, he also traveled and preached to the spirits in prison,

⁷ And whenever the thousand years might be completed, the Adversary will be loosed out of his prison,