Exodus 23:7
23:7 Keep your distance
from a false charge
– do not kill the innocent and the righteous,
for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus 24:14
24:14 He told the elders, “Wait for us in this place until we return to you. Here are
Aaron and Hur with you. Whoever has any matters of dispute
can approach
them.”
Deuteronomy 17:8-12
Appeal to a Higher Court
17:8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, legal claim, or assault – matters of controversy in your villages – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.
17:9 You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.
17:10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.
17:11 You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.
17:12 The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 17:2
17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages
that the
Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God
and breaks his covenant
Deuteronomy 15:3
15:3 You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite
owes you, you must remit.
Job 31:13
31:13 “If I have disregarded the right of my male servants
or my female servants
when they disputed with me,
Acts 18:14-15
18:14 But just as Paul was about to speak,
Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy,
I would have been justified in accepting the complaint
of you Jews,
18:15 but since it concerns points of disagreement
about words and names and your own law, settle
it yourselves. I will not be
a judge of these things!”
Acts 18:1
Paul at Corinth
18:1 After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,