20 Bible Verses about People Accusing People

If then Demetrius and his craftsmen have a grievance against any one, the courts are open and there are the proconsuls; let them accuse one another.

Five days later, Ananias the high priest came down to Caesarea with some of the elders, and with an orator, named Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.

The high priest and the Jewish leaders laid charges against Paul before him.

When he came in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought a number of serious charges against him, which they could not prove.

"Nor can they prove the charges which they are now bringing against me.

"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.

"Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes.

"Now when I received information that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him at once to you, charging his accusers also to speak against him before you."

The Jews also joined in the charge, maintaining that these were the facts.

"who ought to have been here before you, and to have made accusations if they had anything against me.

"Let those then," he said, "who are in authority among you, go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, let them accuse him."

"The chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, when I was at Jerusalem, demanding a sentence against him.

"But when his accusers stood up, they did not begin charging him with any of the crimes that I was expecting,

"a promise which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. It is concerning this hope, King Agrippa, that I am accused by the Jews.

Who shall accuse God's elect? God acquits them;

Indeed I do not even judge myself; for though I know nothing against myself, yet that does not vindicate me; for he who judges me is the Lord.

"But when the Jews objected I was forced to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything to accuse my nation of.

"Here I learned that he was accused about questions of their law, but was not charged with anything worthy of death or imprisonment.

"For it does seem to me unreasonable to send a person without signifying the charges against him."

bearing with one another and forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another. Just as Christ the Lord forgave you, so must you forgive.