Do not be quick to start a quarrel, lest you know not what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

Debate your case with your neighbor, and do not disclose the secret to another,

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

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks terms of peace.

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

And I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.

And Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies.

And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah who said to me, Return to your land and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you:

Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers to the children.

And he lodged there that night, and took what came to his hand as a present for Esau his brother:

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

And he commanded the first one, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose are these before you?

And he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, You shall speak these words to Esau when you find him;

So the present passed over before him, but he himself remained that night in the camp.

He took them, sent them over the brook, and sent over what he had.

And when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob's hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him.

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

Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already done, five measures of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

And so it was, as she rode on the donkey, that she went down under cover of the hill; and behold, David and his men were coming down toward her; and she met them.

God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I leave to him by morning light any of those who urinate against a wall.

And she fell at his feet and said: On me, my lord, on me be this iniquity! And please let your handmaid speak in your ears, and hear the words of your handmaid.

Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, since Jehovah has held you back from coming to blood and from delivering yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies and those who seek evil upon my lord be as Nabal.

Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid; for Jehovah will bring about to prepare an established house for my lord, because my lord is fighting the battles of Jehovah, and evil is not found in you all your days.

And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah has done for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you ruler over Israel,

And David said to Abigail: Blessed is Jehovah the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!

For indeed, as Jehovah the God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hastened and come to meet me, surely by morning light there would not have been left to Nabal any who urinate against a wall!

Now be useful to Him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come to you.

There the upright could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

For this let everyone who is godly pray unto You, in a time when You may be found; surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near him.

My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you have struck your hands with a stranger,

My son, do this then, and deliver yourself when you come into the hand of your friend: go humble yourself and entreat your friend.

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.

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

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

where your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

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

but exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, that not any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for 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, and yourselves being thrust outside.

But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you.

Beware wrath, lest He entice you away to a mocking slap; for a large ransom will not turn it away.

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.

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

Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be set loose out of his prison