Job 23:7
There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.
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Job 23:7
There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.
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Genesis 20:16
And he said to Sarah, See, I have given to your brother a thousand bits of silver so that your wrong may be put right; now your honour is clear in the eyes of all.
2 Samuel 15:3
And Absalom would say to him, See, your cause is true and right; but no man has been named by the king to give you a hearing.
Proverbs 24:26
He gives a kiss with his lips who gives a right answer.
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Genesis 32:24
Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn.
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Exodus 22:9
In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.
Deuteronomy 17:9
And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:
Deuteronomy 19:17
Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;
Isaiah 41:21
Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.
Matthew 5:25
Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.
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Deuteronomy 17:2
If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,
Deuteronomy 17:3
By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;
Deuteronomy 17:4
If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;
Deuteronomy 17:5
Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.
Deuteronomy 17:6
On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness.
Deuteronomy 17:7
The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.
Job 31:11
For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:
Job 31:28
That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.
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1 Samuel 2:10
Those who make war against the Lord will be broken; against them he will send his thunder from heaven: the Lord will be judge of the ends of the earth, he will give strength to his king, lifting up the horn of him on whom the holy oil has been put.
Psalms 7:11
God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.
Psalms 75:7
But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.
Psalms 82:8
Up! O God, come as judge of the earth; for all the nations are your heritage.
Psalms 94:2
Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.
Psalms 98:9
Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
John 5:22
The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son;
John 5:23
So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.
Romans 14:10
But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.
Romans 14:11
For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God.
Romans 14:12
So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.
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Job 4:20
Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
Job 20:7
Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
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Job 9:20
Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
Job 9:21
I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.
Job 9:31
Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
Job 10:7
Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?
Job 23:10
For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.
Job 27:6
I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.
Job 29:12
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Job 32:1
So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.
Luke 16:15
And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
1 Corinthians 4:3
But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.
1 John 3:20
When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.
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Job 13:16
And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him,
Job 13:17
Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds.
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Job 31:31
If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?
Job 31:32
The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey;
Job 31:33
If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,
Job 31:34
For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;
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Job 34:14
If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,
Job 34:15
All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.
Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.
Jeremiah 3:5
Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.
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Job 35:15
And now...;
Job 40:1
...
Job 40:6
Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
Job 40:10
Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:
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Job 38:5
By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
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Job 9:3
If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
Job 9:14
How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?
Job 10:2
I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.
Job 11:5
But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;
Job 33:13
Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
Job 38:1
And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
Job 38:2
Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
Job 40:7
Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
Job 40:9
Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?
Job 42:3
Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.
Job 42:4
Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
Job 42:5
Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.
Ecclesiastes 6:10
That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.
Isaiah 45:9
Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?
Jeremiah 49:19
See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?
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Psalms 87:1
Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song. This house is resting on the holy mountain.
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Isaiah 3:14
The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.
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Isaiah 3:15
By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.
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Isaiah 40:1
Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.
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Isaiah 40:2
Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.
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Job 17:3
Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
Job 33:5
If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.
Job 33:6
See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.
Isaiah 50:8
He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.
Romans 8:1
For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.
Romans 8:28
And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.
Romans 8:33
Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;
Romans 8:34
Who will give a decision against us? It is Christ Jesus who not only was put to death, but came again from the dead, who is now at the right hand of God, taking our part.
Hebrews 4:16
Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.
Hebrews 9:24
For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.
Hebrews 10:22
Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:
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Job 35:12
There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.
Psalms 14:5
Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.
Psalms 66:6
The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.
Hosea 2:17
For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.
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Jeremiah 2:5
These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
Micah 6:1
Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.
Micah 6:3
O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.
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Habakkuk 2:1
I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest.
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Job 14:3
Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
Job 22:4
Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?
Psalms 130:3
O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.
Romans 3:19
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:21
But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;
Romans 3:22
That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,
Philippians 3:9
And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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John 12:47
And if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge: I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the world.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.
2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.
1 Peter 2:23
To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness:
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