Acts 19:38 · KJV
“Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another. {the law...: or, the court days are kept}”
— Acts 19:38
For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. {lawful: or, ordinary}
Acts 19 — Context
Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
37For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
38Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another. {the law...: or, the court days are kept}
39But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. {lawful: or, ordinary}
40For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
Cross References
Acts 13:7
Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
Acts 18:14
And when Paul was now about to open {his} mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O {ye} Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
1 Corinthians 6:1
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
Deuteronomy 17:8
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, {being} matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
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