Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.


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Luke 12 58 When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.
Psalms 119 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
Isaiah 29 21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
James 4 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Romans 2 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;
Deuteronomy 17 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Psalms 79 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
Jeremiah 7 5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Exodus 21 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
Proverbs 19 20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs 28 4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
1 Timothy 4 16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Proverbs 24 28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Psalms 78 1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Acts 4 28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
1 Corinthians 6 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
1 Timothy 1 9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
Proverbs 19 11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Isaiah 16 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Deuteronomy 25 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
Isaiah 26 7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Ecclesiastes 10 4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Psalms 13 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
Psalms 35 23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Acts 23 29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
Deuteronomy 19 18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
Isaiah 46 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Leviticus 5 4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
Exodus 20 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Job 22 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Proverbs 22 29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Deuteronomy 30 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy 19 16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
Ecclesiastes 5 1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Numbers 30 2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
James 2 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Proverbs 11 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Isaiah 51 4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
1 Timothy 1 8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Leviticus 26 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
Ephesians 6 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
1 Peter 2 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
Proverbs 16 17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
Proverbs 4 14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Proverbs 5 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Psalms 32 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Ecclesiastes 8 3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Habakkuk 1 4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Luke 11 52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Psalms 119 149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.