Cross-referencesExplore similar Bible verses on Proverbs 18:16 in English Standard Version "A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before the great." Ge 32:20 and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”1Sa 17:8 He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.1Sa 25:27 And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.