Proverbs 20:15-30
v.23 "Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good."
I am sure proverbs like these, which there are several, were directed primarily in the culture to those who would cheat others in the marketplace. However, I think you could also draw from it the idea of having a "double standard" - partiality, if you will.
v.21 "An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end."
v.24" A man's steps are from the Lord - how then can man understand his way?"
- We are not meant to know the future.
1 Corinthians 6:1-11
Paul sandwiches this section on lawsuits between believers between two sections on sexual immorality, leading one to infer that the grievances they had related to matters of sexual wrongdoing. Paul says, in the first place, that to even have a lawsuit is already a defeat. Why not rather suffer wrong, he says. In the next place, the Corinthians were wrong by taking their case before unbelievers, implicitly saying that they submitted themselves to their judgment, when Paul says in fact that the saints will be the ones to judge the world, even angels. It is not good to submit a civil case between believers before an unbelievers' judgment.
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