Luke 14:32
"If he cannot, while the other king is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy to ask conditions of peace.
Matthew 5:25
"Come to terms with your opponent quickly, while you are yet with him on the way [to the court], to prevent your opponent from handing you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and so you be thrown into prison.
Luke 12:58
"For as you go before the magistrate with your opponent do your utmost to get quit of him, lest he drag you before the judge, and the judge delivers you over to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.
Acts 12:20
Now Herod was violently displeased with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him, with one accord, and after conciliating Blastus, the royal chamberlain, they begged for peace because their country depended upon the king's country for its food supply.
James 4:6-10
But he gives more and more grace. therefore it is said, God ever resists the proud; but to the humble he gives grace continually.