Suing

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God. — read the full passage →

On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening. — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who do his commandments,that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. — read the full passage →

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man. — read the full passage →

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; — read the full passage →

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. — read the full passage →

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

Say, Hear Yahweh’s word, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates. — read the full passage →

Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh? — read the full passage →

He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. — read the full passage →

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights— I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! — read the full passage →

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless: — read the full passage →

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted. — read the full passage →

“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah. — read the full passage →

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?” — read the full passage →

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this: — read the full passage →

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this: — read the full passage →

My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation. — read the full passage →

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. — read the full passage →

For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness. — read the full passage →

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. — read the full passage →

Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered nor counted for multitude. — read the full passage →

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, — read the full passage →

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward. — read the full passage →

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness. — read the full passage →

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. — read the full passage →

“If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double. — read the full passage →

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.