Lawyers

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• Proverbs 31:8–9

  Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

• Luke 11:45–52

  Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also. And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. …

• Isaiah 59:4

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

• John 8:32

  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

• Luke 10:25–37

  And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. …

• Proverbs 17:15

  He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

• Exodus 23:6

  Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

• Galatians 5:14

  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

• 1 Peter 4:1–6

  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: …

• Proverbs 14:25

  A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

• Romans 13:8–10

  Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

• 1 John 4:1

  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

• Matthew 7:12

  Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

• Proverbs 24:11

  If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

• Leviticus 19:15

  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

• Acts 5:34

  Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;

• Jude 1:16

  These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

• Matthew 22:35

  Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

• 1 John 5:20

  And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

• Proverbs 6:16–19

  These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, …

• Hebrews 7:7

  And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

• Exodus 23:3

  Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

• Matthew 5:17

  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

• Titus 2:13

  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

• Luke 6:31

  And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

• Leviticus 22:31

  Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.

• Colossians 3:9–10

  Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

• Proverbs 18:17

  He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

• Romans 13:1

  Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

• Deuteronomy 11:26–28

  Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

• Matthew 25:46

  And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

• 1 Timothy 1:9

  Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

• Colossians 1:1–29

  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, …

• 1 Samuel 2:3

  Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

• Deuteronomy 4:40

  Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.