Deuteronomy 17:8

Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges

8If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to athe place that the Lord your God will choose.

Acts 18:14

14But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious bcrime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint.

1 Corinthians 6:1

Lawsuits Against Believers

1When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous cinstead of the saints?
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