Luke 12:58
As you go with your accuser to the magistrate, on the way you should be working on a settlement. Otherwise you may be dragged before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
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57Why don't you think for yourselves and judge what's the right thing to do?
59I tell you, you won't get out until you've paid the last penny.”
Cross References
Genesis 32:3He sent messengers on ahead to meet his brother Esau who was living in the region of Seir in the country of Edom.
Job 22:21Come back to God and be reconciled to him, and you'll be prosperous again.
Job 36:17But you are preoccupied with the fate of the wicked; judgment and justice fill your mind.
Psalms 50:22Think again, you people who dismiss God, or I will tear you apart, and no one will be able to save you.
Proverbs 25:8don't rush to take legal action, for what are you going to do in the end when your neighbor shows you're wrong and humiliates you?
Matthew 5:23If you're at the altar making an offering, and remember that your brother has something against you,
Matthew Henry on Luke 12:55-59
Reconciliation to God. 54 And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is. 55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. 56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? 57 Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right? 58 When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give… Read the whole commentary →