Litigation

1 Corinthians 6:1

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Proverbs 25:8

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

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?

Job 9:32

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

Proverbs 3:30

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

1 Corinthians 6:1-8

• Arbitration
• Assurance
• Exemplified

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. read more I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 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? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. show less

Isaiah 59:4

• Lying
• Character

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Matthew 5:40

And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.

1 Corinthians 6:10

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

James 4:3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Leviticus 13:1

And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,

Proverbs 3:29

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

2 Chronicles 19:8

• Priest

Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.

Matthew 18:15

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

Proverbs 6:14

• Heart

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

Psalms 127:4

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Revelation 13:10

He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.