Luke 14:32 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³² Or maybe, while the enemy is still a long way off, he will send representatives to ask for peace terms.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² And if he cannot [do so], when the other king is still a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks the terms of peace.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and asketh conditions of peace.

Common English Bible

³² And if he didn’t think he could win, he would send a representative to discuss terms of peace while his enemy was still a long way off.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² If not, then while the other is still far away, sending a delegation, he would ask him for terms of peace.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³² Or else, whilst the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he desireth conditions of peace.

Luke 14:32 Cross References

Matthew 5:25

[In another case], come to terms with the person suing you as soon as possible, [even] on your way [to court], so he does not take you before the judge, and then the judge turn you over to the officer and you be sent to prison.

Matthew 5:42

Give to the person who asks you [for something], and do not refuse to lend to the person who wants to borrow something from you.

Luke 12:58

And while you are on your way to court with your opponent, make every effort to be reconciled [to him] so that he does not drag you in front of the judge, and then the judge turns you over to the officer, and the officer throws you into prison.

Luke 14:31

Or what king, planning to engage another king in war, will not first sit down and evaluate whether he will be able, with ten thousand [soldiers], to defeat someone who attacks him with twenty thousand [soldiers]?

Luke 14:33

So therefore, every one of you who does not say ‘goodbye’ to everything he owns cannot be my disciple.

Luke 19:14

But the citizens [of his newly acquired kingdom] hated him and sent a delegation after him [i.e., to the person who appointed the gentleman king over them], saying, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’

Acts 12:20

Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon [Note: These were seaport cities not under his jurisdiction]. They came to him as a group, having befriended Blastus, an officer of the king [Herod], and tried to arrange a peaceful relationship [with him] because their country [i.e., the cities of Tyre and Sidon] was dependant on him for their food supply.