Psalms 120:7
I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.
BSB
ASV
I am for peace: But when I speak, they are for war.
KJV
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
With those who hated peace I was peaceable; when I spoke to them, they attacked me without cause. Unhappy we, we cannot restrain our tongue, we cannot help slandering the brethren. If someone offends us, we as it were present a peaceful face, but for the rest the heart has poison. We are called monks, and although we are not such as we ought to be, yet we are so called. At the third hour we pray, at the sixth hour we pray, at the ninth, we hold the lamp-lighting, at midnight we rise, then at cockcrow we pray.
I am for peace. Properly, "I am peace"; desirous of peace, peaceful, forbearing, —in fact, peace itself. But when I speak, they are for war. My kindest words appear to provoke them, and they are at daggers drawn at once. Nothing pleases them; if I am silent they count me morose, and if I open my mouth they cavil and controvert. Let those who dwell with such pugilistic company console themselves with the remembrance that both David and David's Lord endured the same trial. It is the lot of the saints to find foes even in their own households.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Matthew 5:9Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
leads to
Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Through
Psalms 34:14Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
leads to
Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.
He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.
Through
Hebrews 12:14Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
leads to
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
