Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Adjudication at law » To be avoided
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
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Compromise » Before litigation, encouraged
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. Verily I say to you, in no wise shall you come out thence, till you pay the last farthing.
For, as you are going with your adversary before the ruler, on the way give diligence to be released from him; lest he draw you to the judge, and the judge shall deliver you to the exactor, and the exactor shall cast you into prison. I tell you, you will in no wise come out thence, till you shall pay even the last mite."
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Litigation to be avoided
and to him who is desirous that you should be sued at the law, and to take your coat, grant your cloak also;
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Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
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Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
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Haste » Not being hasty
Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.
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Lawsuits » To be avoided
Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Or know ye not that the saints will judge the world? And, if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest tribunals? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, then, things pertaining to this life? read more.
If, then, ye have tribunals pertaining to this life, do ye set those to judge who are set at nought in the assembly? I speak to your shame! Is it so, that there is not among you even one wise man, who will be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! Already, therefore, it is wholly a loss to you, that ye have law-suits one with another! Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? But ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren!
If, then, ye have tribunals pertaining to this life, do ye set those to judge who are set at nought in the assembly? I speak to your shame! Is it so, that there is not among you even one wise man, who will be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! Already, therefore, it is wholly a loss to you, that ye have law-suits one with another! Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? But ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren!
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. Verily I say to you, in no wise shall you come out thence, till you pay the last farthing.
Litigation » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Litigation to be avoided
and to him who is desirous that you should be sued at the law, and to take your coat, grant your cloak also;
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Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
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Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
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Strife » Causes of » Forbidden
now a servant of the Lord must not engage in strife, but should be gentle towards all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong,
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doing nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming others better than himself;
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But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
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Of these things put them in remembrance, solemnly charging them before God, that they engage not in word-battles to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
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Strife » Avoiding strife
As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy;
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doing nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming others better than himself;
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