Lawsuits

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Bible verses about “Lawsuits”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Proverbs 25:8Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
• Proverbs 25:9Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:
• Proverbs 25:10Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
• Matthew 5:25Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
• Matthew 5:26Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
• 1 Corinthians 6:1Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
• 1 Corinthians 6:2Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
• 1 Corinthians 6:3Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
• 1 Corinthians 6:4If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
• 1 Corinthians 6:5I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
• 1 Corinthians 6:6But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
• 1 Corinthians 6:7Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
• 1 Corinthians 6:8Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.