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

do not hastily bring out to court, for what will you do at its end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

Therefore if you present your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

Give

Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.

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

Then Abigail {quickly took} two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she put [them] on the donkeys.

"Please reconcile yourself with him, and be at peace; {in this way}, good will come to you.

There an upright person could reason with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

Therefore let all [the] faithful pray to you at [the] time [for] finding [you]. Surely at [the] flood of many waters they will not reach him.

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger,

Seek Yahweh {while he lets himself be found}; call him {while he is} near.

For he says, "At the acceptable time I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now [is] the acceptable time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation!

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice,

The judge

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,

But you are obsessed with [the] judgment of [the] wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you.

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear [you] apart, and there [will be] none to deliver.

Into

But he did not want to, but rather he went [and] threw him into prison until he would repay what was owed.

in which also he went [and] proclaimed to the spirits in prison,

And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison