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Matthew 18:30
But he wasn’t willing. On the contrary, he went and threw him into prison until he could pay what was owed.
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Matthew 5:23-26
So if you are offering your gift on the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.Reach a settlement quickly with your adversary while you’re on the way with him, or your adversary will hand you over to the judge, the judge to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.I assure you: You will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!
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Proverbs 25:8-9
Don’t take a matter to court hastily. Otherwise, what will you do afterward if your opponent humiliates you?Make your case with your opponent without revealing another’s secret;
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2 Corinthians 6 2
For He says: I heard you in an acceptable time, and I helped you in the day of salvation. Look, now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation.
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Job 23:7
Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would escape from my Judge forever.
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Psalms 32:6
Therefore let everyone who is faithful pray to You at a time that You may be found. When great floodwaters come, they will not reach him.
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Job 22:21
Come to terms with God and be at peace; in this way good will come to you.
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1 Samuel 25 18-1 Samuel 25 35
Abigail hurried, taking 200 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.Then she said to her male servants,“ Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.As she rode the donkey down a mountain pass hidden from view, she saw David and his men coming toward her and met them.David had just said,“ I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness for nothing. He was not missing anything, yet he paid me back evil for good.May God punish me and do so severely if I let any of his men survive until morning.”When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey and fell with her face to the ground in front of David.She fell at his feet and said,“ The guilt is mine, my lord, but please let your servant speak to you directly. Listen to the words of your servant.My lord should pay no attention to this worthless man Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name is Nabal, and stupidity is all he knows. I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.Now my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, it is the Lord who kept you from participating in bloodshed and avenging yourself by your own hand. May your enemies and those who want trouble for my lord be like Nabal.Accept this gift your servant has brought to my lord, and let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the Lord is certain to make a lasting dynasty for my lord because he fights the Lord’s battles. Throughout your life, may evil not be found in you.“ When someone pursues you and attempts to take your life, my lord’s life will be tucked safely in the place where the Lord your God protects the living. However, He will fling away your enemies’ lives like stones from a sling.When the Lord does for my lord all the good He promised and appoints you ruler over Israel,there will not be remorse or a troubled conscience for my lord because of needless bloodshed or my lord’s revenge. And when the Lord does good things for my lord, may you remember me your servant.”Then David said to Abigail,“ Praise to the Lord God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today!Your discernment is blessed, and you are blessed. Today you kept me from participating in bloodshed and avenging myself by my own hand.Otherwise, as surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn’t have had any men left by morning light.”Then David accepted what she had brought him and said,“ Go home in peace. See, I have heard what you said and have granted your request.”
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1 Peter 3 19
In that state He also went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison
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Proverbs 6:1-5
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor or entered into an agreement with a stranger,you have been trapped by the words of your lips— ensnared by the words of your mouth.Do this, then, my son, and free yourself, for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power: Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.Don’t give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.Escape like a gazelle from a hunter, like a bird from a fowler’s trap.
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Luke 14:31-32
“ Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with 10,000 to oppose the one who comes against him with 20,000?If not, while the other is still far off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
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Isaiah 55:6
Seek the Lord while He may be found; call to Him while He is near.
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Revelation 20:7
When the 1,000 years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison
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Genesis 32:3-28
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.He commanded them,“ You are to say to my lord Esau,‘ This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male and female slaves. I have sent this message to inform my lord, in order to seek your favor.’”When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said,“ We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you— and he has 400 men with him.”Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; he divided the people with him into two camps, along with the flocks, cattle, and camels.He thought,“ If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining one can escape.”Then Jacob said,“ God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me,‘ Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,’I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.Please rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.You have said,‘ I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them,“ Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”And he told the first one:“ When my brother Esau meets you and asks,‘ Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you?’then tell him,‘ They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’”He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals,“ Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.You are also to say,‘ Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought,“ I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night.During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his 11 sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.When the man saw that He could not defeat him, He struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.Then He said to Jacob,“ Let Me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob said,“ I will not let You go unless You bless me.”“ What is your name?” the man asked.“ Jacob,” he replied.“ Your name will no longer be Jacob,” He said.“ It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”
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Hebrews 3:7-13
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear His voice,do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My worksfor 40 years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation and said,“ They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways.”So I swore in My anger,“ They will not enter My rest.”Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.
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Job 36:17-18
Yet now you are obsessed with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large ransom lead you astray.
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Luke 13:24-28
“ Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be ableonce the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying,‘ Lord, open up for us!’ He will answer you,‘ I don’t know you or where you’re from.’Then you will say,‘ We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets!’But He will say,‘ I tell you, I don’t know you or where you’re from. Get away from Me, all you workers of unrighteousness!’There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that place, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown out.
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Psalms 50:22
“ Understand this, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to rescue you.