Then listen in heaven and judge the man. If the person is guilty, then please show us that he is guilty. And if the person is innocent, then please show us that he is not guilty.
1 Kings 8:31 - Easy To Read Version “If a person does something wrong against another person, he will be brought here to the altar. If that person is not guilty, then he will make an oath. He will promise that he is innocent. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Whenever a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears the oath before Your altar in this house, American Standard Version (1901) If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house; Common English Bible If someone wrongs another and must make a solemn pledge asserting innocence before your altar in this temple, Catholic Public Domain Version But if any man sins against his neighbor, and he has any kind of an oath by which he is bound, and he arrives because of the oath, before your altar in your house, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon him, wherewith he is bound: and come because of the oath before thy altar to thy house: |
Then listen in heaven and judge the man. If the person is guilty, then please show us that he is guilty. And if the person is innocent, then please show us that he is not guilty.
If I have more than I need, then I will think I don’t need you. But if I am poor then I might steal. Then I will bring shame to the name of God.
“A person might hear a warning. Or a person might see or hear something that he should tell to other people. If that person does not tell what he saw or heard, then that person is guilty of doing wrong.
If a person sins against another person, God may help him. But if a person sins against the Lord, then who can help that person?”