Get not suddenly into a quarrel, lest you repent at last.

Whenever your friend shall reproach you, retreat backward, despise [him] not;

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

Make friends with your adversary quickly, while you are on the road with him, lest your adversary hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

Or what king, going to engage another king in battle, [does] not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Otherwise, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks the [terms] for peace.

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

And there were born to me oxen, donkeys, sheep, male and female servants; and I sent to tell my lord Esau, that your servant might find grace in your sight.

And Jacob was greatly terrified, and was perplexed; and he divided the people that was with him, and the cows, and the camels, and the sheep, into two camps.

And Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, You are He that said to me, Depart quickly to the land of your birth, and I will do you good.

Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest haply he should come and attack me, and the mother with the children.

And he slept there that night, and took of the gifts which he carried [with him], and sent out to Esau his brother,

thirty milk camels with their foals, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty donkeys, and ten colts.

And he charged the first, saying, If Esau my brother meets you, and he asks you, saying, To whom do you belong? And where are you going, and whose are these possessions in front of you?

And he charged the first, the second, and the third, and all that went before him after these flocks, saying, Thus shall you speak to Esau when you find him;

So the presents went on before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.

And he took them, and passed over the brook, and brought over all his possessions.

And He saw that He prevailed not against him; and He touched the broad part of his thigh, and the broad part of Jacob's thigh was numbed in his wrestling with Him.

And He said to him, What is your name? And he answered, Jacob.

And Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep readily dressed, and five ephahs of fine flour, and one homer of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them upon donkeys.

And it came to pass when she had mounted her donkey and was going down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down to meet her, and she met them.

So God do to David and more also, if I leave one male of all that belongs to Nabal until the morning.

even to his feet, and said, On me, my lord, be my wrong. Let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.

And now my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, as the Lord has kept you from coming against innocent blood and from executing vengeance for yourself, now therefore let your enemies, and those that seek evil against my lord, become as Nabal.

Remove the trespass of your servant, I pray; for the Lord will surely make for my lord a sure house, for the Lord fights the battles of my lord, and no evil shall ever be found in you.

And it shall be when the Lord has brought to pass for my lord all the good things He has spoken concerning you, and shall appoint you to be ruler over Israel,

And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this very day to meet me.

But surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who hindered me this day from doing you harm, if you had not hastened and come to meet me, then I said, Surely there shall not be one male left to Nabal till the morning.

Be firm, I pray, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper.

for truth and reproof are from Him, and He would bring forth my judgment to an end.

Therefore shall every holy one pray to You in a fit time; only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come near to Him.

[My] son, if you become surety for your friend, you shall deliver your hand to an enemy.

[My] son, do what I command you, and deliver yourself; for on your friend's account you have come into the power of evil men: faint not, but stir up even your friend for whom you have become surety.

that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.

Seek the Lord, and when you find Him, call upon Him; and when He draws near to you,

For He says: "In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice,

Where your fathers tested Me, they tried Me, and saw My works forty years.

So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'"

but encourage yourselves every day, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Strive to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.'

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being cast out.

[there is] a deep gulf and a rushing stream beneath it, and your table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous,

but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.

Now consider these things, all you that forget God, lest He tear [you], and there be none to deliver.

"But he was not willing, but going off, he cast him into prison till he should pay back what was owed.

by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

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