Proverbs 25:8

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Cross References

Matthew 5:25

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Proverbs 30:33

For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.*

Proverbs 18:6

A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the Kohanim bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?

2 Samuel 2:26

Then Aviner called to Yo'av, and said, *Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you bid the people return from following their brothers?*

1 Kings 3:25

The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.