Proverbs 25:8

Do not rush into a lawsuit, lest you be shamed when your neighbor proves you wrong. Hasty accusation invites disgrace.

Cross-references · 10

• Matt 5:25Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on 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.
• Prov 17:14The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
• Prov 18:6A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
• Prov 30:33For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”
• Prov 14:12There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
• Luke 14:31–32Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
• Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
• 2 Sam 2:26Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
• 2 Sam 2:14–16Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”
• 2 Kgs 14:8–12Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”

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