Courts of Justice

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Acts 25:11 NT

  For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

• Acts 26:32 NT

  Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

• Acts 28:19 NT

  But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.

• Jeremiah 21:12 OT

  House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

• Matthew 27:1 NT

  Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

• Acts 5:21 NT

  When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to…

• Matthew 10:17 NT

  But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

• Acts 22:19 NT

  I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

• Acts 26:11 NT

  Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

• James 2:2 NT

  For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,

• Matthew 5:25 NT

  Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

• Matthew 18:34 NT

  His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

• Deuteronomy 25:7 OT

  If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a…

• 1 Samuel 16:4 OT

  Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

• Luke 12:58 NT

  For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

• Judges 5:10 OT

  “Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.

• Leviticus 19:15 OT

  “ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

• Deuteronomy 1:6 OT

  “Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.

• Exodus 23:3 OT

  You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

• Exodus 23:6 OT

  “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

• Proverbs 22:22 OT

  Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

• Deuteronomy 19:18 OT

  and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,

• Exodus 23:8 OT

  “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

• Deuteronomy 16:19 OT

  You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.