Bible Verses About Adjudication at Law

The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.

`Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,