The one who obeys commandments guards his life; the one who despises his ways will die.

Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?

Obey the king’s command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

Whoever obeys his command will not experience harm, and a wise person knows the proper time and procedure.

He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions, and strength to those who defend the city from attackers.

For the Lord, our ruler, the Lord, our commander, the Lord, our king – he will deliver us.

נ (Nun) They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments.

When Ephraim spoke, there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died.

“It was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘hate your enemy.’

The second is: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken),

“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

But Peter said, “Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”

But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

So the person who resists such authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

So if you have ordinary lawsuits, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church?

and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,