Judges 8:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.

Cross References

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.

Psalm 44:3

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

Proverbs 15:1

By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

Proverbs 16:32

He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.

Proverbs 25:11

A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.

Proverbs 25:15

A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.

John 4:37

In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

Romans 12:3

But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, as God has given to every one a measure of faith.

Romans 12:6

And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;

Philippians 2:3

Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

Judges 8:2

And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting?

Judges 8:4

Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.