Luke 14:32 - Revised Version 1885

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

Luke 14:32 Cross References

Job 40:9

Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Matthew 5:25

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles 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.

Matthew 5:42

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

Luke 12:58

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

Luke 14:31

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

Luke 14:33

So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

Luke 19:14

But his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, We will not that this man reign over us.

Acts 12:20

Now he was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: and they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was fed from the king's country.