Bible verses about "lawyers" | NSB

⁶ »Do not deny justice to a poor person at his trial.

¹⁵ »‘Do no injustice in judgment. Do not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great. Judge your neighbor fairly.

¹⁵ Justify the wicked or condemn the just. Both are abomination to Jehovah.

¹² »Do for others the same as you would have them to do for you. That is the meaning of the Law and the Prophets.

³⁵ One of them, a lawyer, tested him by asking a question.

³⁴ One of the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had a reputation among all the people. He commanded to put the apostles outside for a while.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit. Test the spirits to see whether they are from God. This is because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹¹ If you do not deliver those who are condemned to death,

²⁵ A truthful witness saves lives. A deceitful witness speaks lies.

³² »You will know the truth and the truth will make you free!«

²⁵ A lawyer stood up to test him. He asked: »Teacher what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?« ²⁶ He said: »What is written in the law? How do you read it?« ²⁷ He answered: »Love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your life, with all your strength and with all your mind. (Feelings and total existence) (Might and total thinking capacity) And you should love your neighbor as yourself.« (Deuteronomy 6:5) (Leviticus 19:18) ²⁸ He told him: »You answered correctly, do this and you will live.« ²⁹ Desiring to justify himself, he said to Jesus: »Who is my neighbor?« ³⁰ Jesus answered: »A man traveled from Jerusalem to Jericho. He fell among robbers. They stripped him, beat him and left him half dead. ³¹ »A priest traveled on that road. When he saw him he passed by on the other side. ³² »When a Levite came to the place he saw the man and passed by on the other side. ³³ »Then a Samaritan arrived where he was. He was moved with compassion when he saw him. ³⁴ »He went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring oil and wine on them. He set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn to take care of him. ³⁵ »The next day he paid the host two shillings. He said take care of him and if you spend more I will repay you when I return. ³⁶ »Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?« ³⁷ He said: »The one who showed mercy to him.« Jesus said to him: »Go and you do like wise.«

¹ Since Christ suffered physically for us, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had. Whoever suffers physically has ceased from sin. ² From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God’s will and not by human desires (lusts). ³ You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods). ⁴ They think it strange that you do not run with them in wild and reckless living and they speak evil about you. ⁵ They will give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ The good news was preached for this purpose even to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but may live according to God in the spirit.

¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

⁸ Owe no man any thing but to love one another. He that loves another has fulfilled (obeyed) the law. ⁹ For the Law code says: You must not commit adultery, you must not murder, you must not steal, you must not bear false witness, and you must not covet. If there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying; namely, you must love your neighbor as yourself. ¹⁰ Love works no ill to his neighbor. Therefore love is the law’s fulfillment.

⁴ No one calls for justice and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

⁴⁵ One of the lawyers said to him: »Teacher, you also insult us by saying this.« ⁴⁶ Jesus said: »Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to bear. And you will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ »Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸ »Therefore you are witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers. They killed them and you build their tombs. ⁴⁹ »It is for this reason the wisdom of God said, ‘I send to them prophets and apostles and they will persecute and kill some of them.’ ⁵⁰ »The blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation. ⁵¹ »This includes the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. I tell you it will be required of this generation. ⁵² »Woe to you lawyers, for you took away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves and you hindered those entering.«

⁸ Open your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all who are appointed to destruction. ⁹ Open your mouth and judge righteously. Plead the cause of the poor and needy.