'Matters' in the Bible
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,
but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.
But if ye seek anything about other matters, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.
And I, being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these matters.
Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:
But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,