Luke 12:58
For as you are going away with your opponent to the ruler, in the way give diligence to be released from him, lest he may drag you to the judge, and the judge may deliver you to the officer, and the officer may cast you into prison;
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In Context
57And why, also, of yourselves, do you not judge what is righteous?
59I say to you, you may not come forth from there until even the last mite you may give back.”
Cross References
Genesis 32:3And Jacob sends messengers before him to his brother Esau, toward the land of Seir, the field of Edom,
Job 22:21Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace, || Thereby your increase [is] good.
Job 36:17And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, || Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,
Psalms 50:22Now understand this, || You who are forgetting God, || Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
Proverbs 25:8Do not go forth to strive, hurry, turn, || What do you do in its latter end, || When your neighbor causes you to blush?
Matthew 5:23If, therefore, you may bring your gift to the altar, and there may remember that your brother has anything 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 →