John 7:51

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Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?

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  • Prov 18:13 : 13 He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him.
  • Deut 1:17 : 17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of anyone, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too difficult for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.
  • Deut 17:6 : 6 At the testimony of two or three witnesses, he who is worthy of death shall be put to death; but he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 If a matter arises that is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of dispute within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses, 9 and you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is in office in those days, and inquire, and they shall declare to you the verdict of the judgment. 10 You shall do according to the decision they give you at the place which the LORD chooses, and you shall be careful to do according to all that they instruct you. 11 According to the sentence of the law which they teach you, and according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence they show you, to the right hand or to the left.
  • Deut 19:15-19 : 15 One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established. 16 If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing; 17 Then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in that time; 18 And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness who has testified falsely against his brother; 19 Then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.
  • Acts 23:3 : 3 Then Paul said to him, God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall! For do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?

Similar Verses (AI)

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    24Judge not according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.

    25Then some of them from Jerusalem said, Is this not he whom they seek to kill?

    26But look, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is truly the Christ?

    27However, we know where this man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows where he is from.

  • John 7:48-50
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    48Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in him?

    49But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.

    50Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them,

  • Luke 12:57
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    57Yes, and why even of yourselves do you not judge what is right?

  • Matt 7:1
    72%

    1Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.

  • John 18:30-31
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    30They answered and said to him, If he were not a wrongdoer, we would not have delivered him to you.

    31Then Pilate said to them, Take him and judge him according to your law. Therefore the Jews said to him, It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,

  • John 7:19
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    19Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?

  • John 7:52
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    52They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.

  • John 8:15
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    15You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

  • John 8:46-47
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    46Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

    47He who is of God hears God's words: you therefore do not hear them, because you are not of God.

  • John 18:21
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    21Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard me what I have said to them. Indeed, they know what I said.

  • Acts 7:1
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    1Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

  • Acts 25:16
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    16To whom I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before he who is accused meets his accusers face to face, and has an opportunity to present his defense concerning the charges against him.

  • John 3:9-11
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    9Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?

    10Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?

    11Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak what we know and testify what we have seen, and you do not receive our witness.

  • John 8:5-7
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    5Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned: but what do you say?

    6They said this trying him, that they might have something to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he did not hear them.

    7So when they continued asking him, he stood up and said to them, He that is without sin among you, let him first throw a stone at her.

  • John 7:45-46
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    45Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have you not brought him?

    46The officers answered, No man ever spoke like this man.

  • John 19:7
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    7The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

  • Rom 2:13
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    13For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

  • John 18:34
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    34Jesus answered him, Do you say this of yourself, or did others tell you about me?

  • John 9:30-31
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    30The man answered and said to them, Well, here is a marvelous thing, that you do not know where he is from, yet he has opened my eyes.

    31Now we know that God does not hear sinners: but if any man is a worshiper of God, and does his will, him he hears.

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    1Do any of you, having a matter against someone else, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

  • Acts 4:19
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    19But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.

  • Matt 27:13
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    13Then Pilate said unto him, Don't you hear how many things they testify against you?

  • Luke 18:6
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    6And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge says.

  • John 3:1-2
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    68%

    1There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

    2This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these miracles that you do, except God be with him.

  • Acts 24:6
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    6Who also attempted to desecrate the temple: whom we seized, and would have judged according to our law.

  • Acts 7:27
    68%

    27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

  • Deut 25:1
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    1If there is a dispute between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

  • Mark 7:16
    68%

    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.

  • Luke 22:71
    68%

    71And they said, What need do we have for any further witness? For we ourselves have heard it from his own mouth.

  • John 7:17
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    17If anyone will do his will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak on my own authority.

  • John 8:50
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    50And I do not seek my own glory: there is one who seeks and judges.

  • Rom 2:1
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    1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are that judges: for in what you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

  • Gal 4:21
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    21Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

  • Deut 1:17
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    17You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of anyone, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too difficult for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.

  • John 11:47
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    47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What shall we do? for this man does many miracles.