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"Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.King James Bible
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.American Standard Version
Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art with him in the way; lest haply the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.Young's Literal Translation
'Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,Matthew 5:25 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleAgree with thine adversary quickly - Adversary, αντιδικος, properly a plaintiff in law - a perfect law term. Our Lord enforces the exhortation given in the preceding verses, from the consideration of what was deemed prudent in ordinary law-suits. In such cases, men should make up matters with the utmost speed, as running through the whole course of a law-suit must not only be vexatious, but be attended with great expense; and in the end, though the loser may be ruined, yet the gainer has nothing. A good use of this very prudential advice of our Lord is this: Thou art a sinner; God hath a controversy with thee. There is but a step between thee and death. Now is the accepted time. Thou art invited to return to God by Christ Jesus. Come immediately at his call, and he will save thy soul. Delay not! Eternity is at hand; and if thou die in thy sins, where God is thou shalt never come. Those who make the adversary, God; the judge, Christ; the officer, Death; and the prison, Hell, abuse the passage, and highly dishonor God. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge with. Genesis 32:3-8,13-22 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the country of Edom... Genesis 33:3-11 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother... 1 Samuel 25:17-35 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household... Proverbs 6:1-5 My son, if you be surety for your friend, if you have stricken your hand with a stranger... Proverbs 25:8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof, when your neighbor has put you to shame. Luke 12:58,59 When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, as you are in the way, give diligence that you may be delivered from him... Luke 14:31,32 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first... whiles. Job 22:21 Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come to you. Psalm 32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found... Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near... Luke 13:24,25 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able... 2 Corinthians 6:2 (For he said, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored you: behold, now is the accepted time... Hebrews 3:7,13 Why (as the Holy Ghost said, To day if you will hear his voice... Hebrews 12:17 For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance... and the. 1 Kings 22:26,27 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son... Matthew 5:25 Parallel Commentaries
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Proverbs 25:8 do not bring hastily to court, for what will you do in the end if your neighbor puts you to shame?
Matthew 26:58 But Peter followed him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. He entered and sat down with the guards to see the outcome.
Luke 12:58 As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled on the way, or your adversary may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
Luke 18:3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'
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