Bible verses about "lawyers" | BBE

⁶ Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

¹⁵ Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

¹⁵ He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

¹² All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.

³⁵ And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,

³⁴ But one of the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a man of learning in the law, of whom all the people had a high opinion, got up and made a suggestion for the men to be put outside for a little time.

¹ My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹¹ Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.

²⁵ A true witness is the saviour of lives; but he who says false things is a cause of deceit.

²⁵ And a certain teacher of the law got up and put him to the test, saying, Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life? ²⁶ And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it? ²⁷ And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself. ²⁸ And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life. ²⁹ But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour? ³⁰ And Jesus, answering him, said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he got into the hands of thieves, who took his clothing and gave him cruel blows, and when they went away, he was half dead. ³¹ And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he went by on the other side. ³² And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side. ³³ But a certain man of Samaria, journeying that way, came where he was, and when he saw him, he was moved with pity for him, ³⁴ And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him. ³⁵ And the day after he took two pennies and gave them to the owner of the house and said, Take care of him; and if this money is not enough, when I come again I will give you whatever more is needed. ³⁶ Which of these three men, in your opinion, was neighbour to the man who came into the hands of thieves? ³⁷ And he said, The one who had mercy on him. And Jesus said, Go and do the same.

³² And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.

¹⁴ For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

¹ So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin; ² So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God. ³ Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images; ⁴ And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you: ⁵ But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead. ⁶ For this was the reason why the good news of Jesus was given even to the dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but might be living before God in the spirit.

⁸ Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law. ⁹ And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. ¹⁰ Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

⁴ No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

⁴⁵ And one of the teachers of the law, answering, said to him, Master, in saying this, you give a bad name to us as to them. ⁴⁶ And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them. ⁴⁷ A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death. ⁴⁸ So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places. ⁴⁹ For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains; ⁵⁰ So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days; ⁵¹ From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was put to death between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I say to you, It will come on this generation. ⁵² A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not go in yourselves, and you got in the way of those who were going in.

⁸ Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death. ⁹ Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.