Acts 19:38
Good News Translation
If Demetrius and his workers have an accusation against anyone, we have the authorities and the regular days for court; charges can be made there.

New Revised Standard Version
If therefore Demetrius and the artisans with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges there against one another.

Contemporary English Version
If Demetrius and his workers have a case against these men, we have courts and judges. Let them take their complaints there.

New American Bible
If Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a complaint against anyone, courts are in session, and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if Demetrius and the craftsmen that are with him have a matter against any man, the courts of justice are open: and there are proconsuls. Let them accuse one another.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if Demetrius and the craftsmen that are with him have a matter against any man, the courts of justice are open: and there are proconsuls. Let them accuse one another.

Demetrius.

Acts 19:24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver temples for Diana, brought no small gain to the craftsmen.

have.

Acts 18:14 And when Paul was beginning to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: If it were some matter of injustice or an heinous deed, O Jews, I should with reason bear with you.

Deuteronomy 17:8 If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.

1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust: and not before the saints?

the law is open.

Context
The Riot in Ephesus
37For you have brought hither these men, who are neither guilty of sacrilege nor of blasphemy against your goddess. 38But if Demetrius and the craftsmen that are with him have a matter against any man, the courts of justice are open: and there are proconsuls. Let them accuse one another. 39And if you inquire after any other matter, it may be decided in a lawful assembly.…
Cross References
Acts 13:7
Who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He, sending for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God.

Acts 13:8
But Elymas the magician (for so his name is interpreted) withstood them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.

Acts 13:12
Then the proconsul, when he had seen what was done, believed, admiring at the doctrine of the Lord.

Acts 19:24
For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver temples for Diana, brought no small gain to the craftsmen.

Acts 19:39
And if you inquire after any other matter, it may be decided in a lawful assembly.

Acts 19:37
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