Judges 8:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger against him was abated, when he had said this.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:1

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

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.

Romans 12:6

Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me I bid every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him.

John 4:37

For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’

Proverbs 25:15

With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting 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 the sake of thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness!

Psalm 44:3

for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance; for thou didst delight in them.

Judges 8:2

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

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.