Luke 12:58 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵⁸ “For, as you go with your opponent to a ruler, try hard along the way to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

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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.

Luke 12:58 Cross References

Job 22:21

Be of service to Him, and be at peace; thereby blessing shall come to you.

Job 23:7

There the upright might reason with Him, and I would go safe forever from my Judge.

Psalm 32:6

Therefore, let every kind one pray to You While You might be found; Even in a flood of great waters They would not reach him.

Psalm 50:22

“Understand this please, you who forget Eloah, Lest I tear you in pieces, With no one to deliver:

Isaiah 55:6

Seek יהוה  while He is to be found, call on Him while He is near.

Matthew 18:30

“But he would not, and went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For He says, “In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of deliverance I have helped you.” See, now is the well-accepted time, see, now is a day of deliverance –

1 Peter 3:19

in which also He went and proclaimed unto the spirits in prison,

2 Peter 1:15

And I shall do my utmost also, to see to it that you always have a reminder of these matters after my departure.

Jude 1:3

Beloved ones, making all haste to write to you concerning our common deliverance, I felt the necessity to write to you urging you to earnestly contend for the belief which was once for all delivered to the set-apart ones.

Revelation 20:7

And when the thousand years have ended, Satan shall be released from his prison,