Bible Verses about “suing someone”

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”

“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

“¶ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,”

“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”

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

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”

“¶ ‹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.›”

“And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”

“‹But if he will not hear› [thee, then] ‹take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.›”

“‹And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell› [it] ‹unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.›”

“‹But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.›”

“¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”

“¶ ‹Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:›”

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”

“¶ I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;”

“¶ Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”

“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?”

“‹Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.›”

“For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:”

“For kings, and [for] all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.”

“Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.”

“For what glory [is it], if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with God.”

“For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.”

“But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.”

“For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.”

“Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:”

“But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,”

“Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:”

“‹And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have› [thy] ‹cloke also.›”

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

“‹And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.›”

“Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.”

“Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?”

“¶ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.”

“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?”

“If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.”

“Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.”

“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?”

“For there is no respect of persons with God.”

“To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:”

“Who will render to every man according to his deeds:”

“What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.”

“But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.”

“And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.”

“And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?”

“Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.”

“But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.”

“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;)”

“For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:”