And you, Ezra, in accordance with the wisdom of your God, which you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people of Trans-Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach any who do not know them.

Let our officials act for the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?

He leads rulers away stripped and makes fools of judges.

“Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?

He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.

Then people will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”

It is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another.

If a king judges the poor with fairness, his throne will be established forever.

He does not lend to them at interest or take a profit from them. He withholds his hand from doing wrong and judges fairly between two parties.

But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.

“‘In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed festivals, and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.

He then summoned the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of the image he had set up.

So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials assembled for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it.

And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.

Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.

Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,

But Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges!

All this took about 450 years. “After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.

Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear.