20 Bible Verses about People Accusing People

If, however, Demetrius and the artisans who are acting with him have a charge to make against any one, there are Court Days and there are Magistrates; let both parties take legal proceedings.

Five days afterwards the High Priest Ananias came down with some of the Councillors and a barrister named Tertullus. They laid an information with the Governor against Paul;

There the Chief Priests and the leading men among the Jews laid an information before him against Paul,

On Paul's appearance, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and made many serious charges, which they failed to establish.

And they cannot establish the charges which they are now making against me.

Be ready to make friends with your opponent, even when you meet him on your way to the court; for fear that he should hand you over to the judge, and the judge to his officer, and you should be thrown into prison.

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have been resting your hopes.

Having, however, information of a plot against the man, which was about to be put into execution, I am sending him to you at once, and I have also directed his accusers to prosecute him before you.'

The Jews also joined in the attack and bore out his statements.

There were, however, some Jews from Roman Asia who ought to have been here before you, and to have made any charge that they may have against me--

"So let the influential men among you," he said, "go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, charge him formally with it."

About whom, when I came to Jerusalem, the Jewish Chief Priest and the Councillors laid an information, demanding judgment against him.

But, when his accusers came forward, they brought no charge of wrong-doing such as I had expected;

A promise which our Twelve Tribes, by earnest service night and day, hope to see fulfilled. It is for this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused--and by Jews themselves!

Who will bring a charge against any of God's People? He who pronounces them righteous is God!

For, though I am conscious of nothing against myself, that does not prove me innocent. It is the Lord who is my judge.

But, as the Jews opposed my release, I was compelled to appeal to the Emperor--not, indeed, that I had any charge to make against my own nation.

When I found that their charges were connected with questions of their own Law, and that there was nothing alleged involving either death or imprisonment.

For it seems to me absurd to send a prisoner, without at the same time stating the charges made against him."

Bearing with one another, and, when there is any ground for complaint, forgiving one another freely. As the Master freely forgave you, so you must forgive one another.