Luke 14:32 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³² And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace.

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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

Job 40:9

Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

Matthew 5:25

Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison;

Matthew 5:42

Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.

Luke 12:58

As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.

Luke 14:31

Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Luke 14:33

So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Luke 19:14

But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

Acts 12:20

Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and they came to him in a body, and having persuaded Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.