Isaiah 29:21
those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.
Amos 5:10-12
The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly.
Judges 12:6
then they said to him, "Say 'Shibboleth!'" If he said, "Sibboleth" (and could not pronounce the word correctly), they grabbed him and executed him right there at the fords of the Jordan. On that day forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell dead.
Proverbs 28:21
To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.
Isaiah 32:7
A deceiver's methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then some people said, "Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God's word. Come on! Let's bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says."
Jeremiah 20:7-10
Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me.
Jeremiah 26:2-8
The Lord said, "Go stand in the courtyard of the Lord's temple. Speak out to all the people who are coming from the towns of Judah to worship in the Lord's temple. Tell them everything I command you to tell them. Do not leave out a single word!
Ezekiel 13:19
You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!
Amos 7:10-17
Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent this message to King Jeroboam of Israel: "Amos is conspiring against you in the very heart of the kingdom of Israel! The land cannot endure all his prophecies.
Micah 2:6-7
Don't preach with such impassioned rhetoric,' they say excitedly. 'These prophets should not preach of such things; we will not be overtaken by humiliation.'
Malachi 3:5
"I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me," says the Lord who rules over all.
Matthew 22:15
Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.
Matthew 26:15
and said, "What will you give me to betray him into your hands?" So they set out thirty silver coins for him.
Luke 11:53-54
When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,
Acts 3:14
But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.
James 5:6
You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.