Topic
LAWYER
(One versed in the Mosaic law)
Passages on this topic · 23
- Matthew 22:35
One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
- Luke 10:25
Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
- Luke 10:26
He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”
- Luke 10:27
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
- Luke 10:28
He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
- Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
- Luke 10:30
Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
- Luke 10:31
By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
- Luke 10:32
In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.
- Luke 10:33
But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
- Luke 10:34
came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
- Luke 10:35
On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’
- Luke 10:36
Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”
- Luke 10:37
He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
- Luke 11:45
One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”
- Luke 11:46
He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
- Luke 11:47
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
- Luke 11:48
So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
- Luke 11:49
Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
- Luke 11:50
that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
- Luke 11:51
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
- Luke 11:52
Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”
- Titus 3:13
Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).