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 be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

"If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

Give

Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

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

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

"Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

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

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

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

Seek the LORD while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

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

The judge

"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

"Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Into

He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

in which he also went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison,

And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,