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Bible Verses About Trespass

17 verses · 4 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. “If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.

  2. But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

  3. If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

  4. Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

  5. If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

  6. “If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

  7. the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

  8. “If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

  9. Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  10. For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

  11. When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

  12. “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

  13. But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

  14. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

  15. Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

  16. Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

  17. If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”