Judges 8:3

A Conservative Version

God has delivered into your hand the rulers of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and what was I able to do in comparison with you? Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a grievous word stirs up anger.

Philippians 2:3

in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.

Romans 12:6

And having different gifts according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, according to the proportion of faith;

Romans 12:3

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.

John 4:37

For in this the saying is true, One is who sows, and another who reaps.

Proverbs 25:15

By long-suffering a ruler is persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.

Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken is apples of gold in a network of silver.

Proverbs 16:32

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to thy name give glory. For thy loving kindness, and for thy truth's sake.

Psalm 44:3

For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them, but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou were favorable to them.

Judges 8:2

And he said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

Judges 8:4

And Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.