Luke 14:32

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If he thinks he won't be able to defend himself, he will send messengers and ask for peace while the other king is still a long way off.

Cross References

Job 40:9

Do you have a powerful arm and a thundering voice that compare with mine?

Matthew 5:25

Before you are dragged into court, make friends with the person who has accused you of doing wrong. If you don't, you will be handed over to the judge and then to the officer who will put you in jail.

Matthew 5:42

When people ask you for something, give it to them. When they want to borrow money, lend it to them.

Luke 12:58

When someone accuses you of something, try to settle things before you are taken to court. If you don't, you will be dragged before the judge. Then the judge will hand you over to the jailer, and you will be locked up.

Luke 14:31

What will a king do if he has only ten thousand soldiers to defend himself against a king who is about to attack him with twenty thousand soldiers? Before he goes out to battle, won't he first sit down and decide if he can win?

Luke 14:33

So then, you cannot be my disciple unless you give away everything you own.

Luke 19:14

But the people of his country hated him, and they sent messengers to the foreign country to say, “We don't want this man to be our king.”

Acts 12:20

Herod and the people of Tyre and Sidon were very angry with each other. But their country got its food supply from the region that he ruled. So a group of them went to see Blastus, who was one of Herod's high officials. They convinced Blastus that they wanted to make peace between their cities and Herod,