Luke 12:58 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵⁸ And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it done therefore: why cumbereth it the ground?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁸ When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁸ Then as you go with your accuser before a magistrate, on the way make a diligent effort to settle and be quit (free) of him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁸ For as thou art going with thine adversary before the magistrate, on the way give diligence to be quit of him; lest haply he drag thee unto the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the officer, and the officer shall cast thee into prison.

Common English Bible

⁵⁸ As you are going to court with your accuser, make your best effort to reach a settlement along the way. Otherwise, your accuser may bring you before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁸ So, when you are going with your adversary to the ruler, while you are on the way, make an effort to be freed from him, lest perhaps he may lead you to the judge, and the judge may deliver you to the officer, and the officer may cast you into prison.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵⁸ And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst thou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps he draw thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter, and the exacter cast thee into prison.

Luke 12:58 Cross References

Job 22:21

6 Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.

Job 23:7

2 I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

Psalm 32:6

Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.

Psalm 50:22

For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

Isaiah 55:6

THUS saith the Lord : Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my justice to be revealed.

Matthew 18:30

And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, and saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

2 Corinthians 6:2

1 Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

1 Peter 3:19

For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead: that they might be judged indeed according to men, in the flesh; but may live according to God, in the Spirit.

2 Peter 1:15

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their perdition slumbereth not.

Jude 1:3

2 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,

Revelation 20:7

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone, and the sea is now no more.