5 Bible Verses about Litigation
Most Relevant Verses
Be agreeing with thine opponent quickly, while thou are with him on the way, lest the opponent deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the subordinate, and thou will be cast into prison.
Dare any of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before the unrighteous and not before the sanctified?
For when thou go with thine opponent to the magistrate on the way give effort to be delivered from him, lest he may drag thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer would cast thee into prison.
Go not forth hastily to strive. What will thou do in the end of it when thy neighbor has put thee to shame?
Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
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Litigation » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Litigation to be avoided
And to the man who wants to sue thee, and take away thy coat, thou shall leave him thy cloak also.
Be agreeing with thine opponent quickly, while thou are with him on the way, lest the opponent deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the subordinate, and thou will be cast into prison.
Go not forth hastily to strive. What will thou do in the end of it when thy neighbor has put thee to shame?
Dare any of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before the unrighteous and not before the sanctified?
Litigation » To be avoided
Be agreeing with thine opponent quickly, while thou are with him on the way, lest the opponent deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the subordinate, and thou will be cast into prison.
Dare any of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before the unrighteous and not before the sanctified? Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes? Know ye not that we will judge heavenly agents? Then why not mundane things? read more.
Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge. I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother? But brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers? Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? Instead ye do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers.
For when thou go with thine opponent to the magistrate on the way give effort to be delivered from him, lest he may drag thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer would cast thee into prison.
