Proverbs 25:8
don'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?
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9Discuss the case with your neighbor himself, and don't betray someone else's secret,
Cross References
2 Samuel 2:26Abner shouted to Joab: “Do we have to keep killing each other forever? Don't you realize that if we go on it'll only get worse? How long are you going to wait before you order your men to stop chasing their brothers?”
2 Kings 14:8Amaziah sent messengers to the king of Israel, Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, telling him, “Let's fight, face to face!”
Proverbs 17:14The beginning of a quarrel is like the first leak in a water dam, so drop it before a major argument bursts out.
Proverbs 30:33Just as churning milk produces butter, and twisting someone's nose makes it bleed, so stirring up anger causes arguments.
Jeremiah 5:31The prophets give false prophecies; the priests rule as they please. My people love it like this, but what will you do when it all falls apart?
Luke 14:31What king goes to war with another king without first sitting down with his advisors to work out whether he and his ten thousand can defeat the one marching against him with twenty thousand?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:7-8
6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men: 7 For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen. Here we see, 1. That religion is so far from destroying good manners that it reaches us to behave ourselves lowly and reverently towards our superiors, to keep our distance, and give place to those to whom it belongs " Put not forth thyself rudely and carelessly in… Read the whole commentary →