Luke 12:58

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

Thou goest

Proverbs 25:8

Matthew 5:23

Give

The judge

Luke 13:24

Job 36:17

Psalm 50:22

Into

Matthew 18:30

1 Peter 3:19

Revelation 20:7

Bible References

Thou goest

Go not forth hastily to strive. What will thou do in the end of it when thy neighbor has put thee to shame?

If therefore thou should bring thy gift to the altar, and remember there that thy brother has anything against thee,

Give

Or what king going to encounter another king in war, will not, having first sat down, consult whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles 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 don

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace. By this good shall come to thee.

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

For this let everyone who is devout pray to thee in a time when thou may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach to him.

My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbor, if thou have struck thy hands for a stranger,

Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.

(for he says, At an acceptable time I heard thee, and in a day of salvation I helped thee. Behold, now is an acceptable time. Behold, now is a day of salvation),

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if ye hear his voice,

The judge

Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

But thou have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold,

Now consider this, ye who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

Into

But he would not, instead, having left him, he cast him into prison until he would pay that which was owed.

in which also, having gone, he preached to the spirits in prison

And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed out of his prison.