Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: {without natural...: or unsociable}

A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

A man {that hath} friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend {that} sticketh closer than a brother.

And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: {taken an...: Heb. brought him to an oath}

But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. {stand: or, be established}

A gift {is as} a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth. {a precious...: Heb. a stone of grace}

Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, {even} betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; {We saw...: Heb. Seeing we saw}

A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though {it be} but a man's covenant, yet {if it be} confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. {covenant: or, testament}

Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

Then his father and his mother said unto him, {Is there} never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. {pleaseth...: Heb. is right in mine eyes}