The one who vindicates me is close by. Who dares to argue with me? Let us confront each other! ¹  Who is my accuser? ²  Let him challenge me! ³ 

For the Lord judges all humanity ¹  with fire and his sword; the Lord will kill many. ² 

He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ ¹  The Lord says, ‘That is a good example of what it means to know me.’ ² 

In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous descendant ¹  of David. “‘He will do what is just and right in the land.

‘But I will take you out of the city. ¹  And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.

I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.

But the court will convene, ¹  and his ruling authority will be removed – destroyed and abolished forever!

And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons ¹  cast them ²  out? For this reason they will be your judges.

Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons ¹  cast them ²  out? Therefore they will be your judges.

For ¹  a while he refused, but later on ²  he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people, ³ 

But some people ¹  joined him ²  and believed. Among them ³  were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, ⁴  a woman ⁵  named Damaris, and others with them.

So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, ¹  and began to beat ²  him in front of the judgment seat. ³  Yet none of these things were of any concern ⁴  to Gallio.

So after they came back here with me, ¹  I did not postpone the case, ²  but the next day I sat ³  on the judgment seat ⁴  and ordered the man to be brought.

But because of your stubbornness ¹  and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! ² 

For if by my lie the truth of God enhances ¹  his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions. ¹ 

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard ¹  for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.