'Dispute' in the Bible

When they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor and make known the statutes of God and His laws.”

Let them judge the people at all times; and let it be that every major dispute they will bring to you, but every minor dispute they themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

They judged the people at all times; the difficult dispute they would bring to Moses, but every minor dispute they themselves would judge.

You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;

nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute.

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.

“If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.

Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name of the Lord; and every dispute and every assault shall be settled by them.

“If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

Then she spoke, saying, “Formerly they used to say, ‘They will surely ask advice at Abel,’ and thus they ended the dispute.

Whenever any dispute comes to you from your brethren who live in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them so that they may not be guilty before the Lord, and wrath may not come on you and your brethren. Thus you shall do and you will not be guilty.

“If one wished to dispute with Him,He could not answer Him once in a thousand times.

Whatever exists has already been named, and it is known what man is; for he cannot dispute with him who is stronger than he is.

In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts and sanctify My sabbaths.

The Lord also has a dispute with Judah,And will punish Jacob according to his ways;He will repay him according to his deeds.

“Listen, you mountains, to the indictment of the Lord,And you enduring foundations of the earth,Because the Lord has a case against His people;Even with Israel He will dispute.

And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest.

[When he had spoken these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.]

For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute.

But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.