2 Samuel 2:27
And Joab said, As God lives, unless you had spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone up every one from following his brother.
2 Samuel 2:14
And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.
1 Samuel 25:26
Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD has held you back from coming to shed blood, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
Job 27:2
As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul;
Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 20:18
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice wage war.
Proverbs 25:8
Go not forth hastily to court, lest you know not what to do in the end, when your neighbor has put you to shame.
Isaiah 47:7
And you said, I shall be a lady forever: so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of them.
Luke 14:31-32
Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first, and consults whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand?