Courts of Justice

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Acts 24:10 NT

  When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,

• Acts 26:1 NT

  Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.

• Proverbs 31:8 OT

  Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

• Proverbs 31:9 OT

  Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

• Isaiah 1:17 OT

  Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

• Joshua 7:19 OT

  Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

• Leviticus 5:1 OT

  “ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

• Matthew 26:63 NT

  But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

• Acts 22:24 NT

  the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

• Acts 22:29 NT

  Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

• Matthew 26:67 NT

  Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

• John 18:22 NT

  When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

• John 18:23 NT

  Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”

• Acts 23:2 NT

  The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

• Acts 23:3 NT

  Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”

• Deuteronomy 17:6 OT

  At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

• Deuteronomy 19:15 OT

  One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

• John 8:17 NT

  It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.

• 2 Corinthians 13:1 NT

  This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

• Leviticus 24:14 OT

  “Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

• Deuteronomy 19:19 OT

  then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Isaiah 10:1 OT

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

• Amos 5:12 OT

  For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

• Amos 8:6 OT

  that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”