Bible Verses about “taking people to court”

“Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,”

“for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”

“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”

“Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."”

“for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.”

“Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,”

“Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”

“nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.”

“"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.”

“Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.”

“But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.”

“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.”

“"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.”

“He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."”

“Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?”

“Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.”

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

“But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!”

“Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?”

“"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.”

“Don't you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?”

“Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?”

“If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?”

“No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.”

“I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?”

“Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.”

“Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."”

“But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.”

“Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.”

“Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."”

“Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.”

“Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!”

“When a man's ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.”

“So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."”

“"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'”

“I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'”

“He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.”

“He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.”

“He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'”

“but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.”

“Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!”

“He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.”

“Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

“Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."”

“Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.”

“for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say."”

“Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?”

“Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.”

“When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;”

“Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.”