Court

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Acts 5:25-28 NT

  One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.” Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might…

• Acts 5:34 NT

  But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

• Acts 5:38-41 NT

  Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown. But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against…

• 1 Samuel 7:15-17 OT

  Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places. His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there;…

• Exodus 18:21-26 OT

  Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. Let them judge the…

• Deuteronomy 17:8-13 OT

  If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh…

• 2 Chronicles 19:5-10 OT

  He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment. Now therefore let the…

• Exodus 23:2 OT

  “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

• Exodus 23:3 OT

  You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

• Exodus 23:6-8 OT

  “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked. “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have…

• Deuteronomy 1:16 OT

  I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

• Deuteronomy 1:17 OT

  You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

• Deuteronomy 25:1 OT

  If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

• Deuteronomy 17:8-12 OT

  If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh…

• Micah 5:1 OT

  Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

• Acts 23:1-5 NT

  Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.” The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him, “God will…

• Proverbs 17:15 OT

  He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

• Proverbs 29:26 OT

  Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.

• Isaiah 1:23 OT

  Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

• Isaiah 5:23 OT

  who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

• Isaiah 10:1 OT

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

• Isaiah 10:2 OT

  to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

• Micah 3:11 OT

  Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

• Micah 7:3 OT

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.