12 Bible Verses about Handing Over People

"Come to terms with your opponent quickly, while you are yet with him on the way [to the court], to prevent your opponent from handing you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and so you be thrown into prison.

"For as you go before the magistrate with your opponent do your utmost to get quit of him, lest he drag you before the judge, and the judge delivers you over to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.

"But beware of men! For they will give you up to the Sanhedrin, and flog you in their synagogues.

"You yourselves must be on your guard. They will hand you over to the courts, and you will be flogged on the synagogues; and you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, to witness to them for me.

"But before all these things happen, they will apprehend you and persecute you and deliver you to the synagogues and to prisons, and bring you before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

Then they will deliver you up to suffer affliction, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

And then many will stumble and fall, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death.

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against their parents, and have them put to death.

"You will be betrayed even by parents or brothers and kinsfolk, and friends.

"But whenever they apprehend you, do not be anxious about how you shall speak or what you shall say; for it will be given you in that very hour what to say.

When, however, they are leading you all to trial, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but whatever is given you in that hour, that say, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.