Acts 25:16
to whom I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and he have got opportunity of defence touching the charge.
Acts 25:4-5
Festus therefore answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to set out shortly.
John 7:51
Does our law judge a man before it have first heard from himself, and know what he does?
Acts 23:30
But having received information of a plot about to be put in execution against the man by the Jews, I have immediately sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before thee the things that are against him. Farewell.
Deuteronomy 17:4
and it be told thee, and thou hearest of it; then thou shalt make thorough inquiry, and if it be truth and the thing be certain, that this abomination hath been wrought in Israel,
Deuteronomy 19:17-18
then both the men between whom the controversy is shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days;
Proverbs 18:13
He that giveth answer before he heareth, it is folly and shame unto him.
Proverbs 18:17
He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
Acts 26:1
And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretching out his hand answered in his defence: