I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
Parallel translations
- KJV I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
- BSB I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.
- ESV I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war!
- NKJV I am for peace; But when I speak, they are for war.
- NASB I am for peace, but when I speak, They are for war.
- NLT I search for peace; but when I speak of peace, they want war!
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Cross-references & the web
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- Matt 5:9Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
- Ps 109:4In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
- Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
- Ps 34:14Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.
- Rom 12:18If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
- Eph 2:14–17For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
- Ps 35:20For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
- Ps 55:20He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.
- 1 Sam 26:2–4Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
- 2 Sam 20:19I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”
- 1 Sam 24:9–11David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’
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