Lawsuits are grouped with bad behaviors that belong in hell.

If you're not a Christian at all, if you haven't received God's pardon in Christ, if his Holy Spirit is not in you, then it's understandable if you're as self-centered and combative as the wicked world around you. In that case, your attitude toward lawsuits is a symptom of a much more serious problem: you don't have eternal life, and you must be born again and have your sins washed away by faith in Jesus.

But perhaps you already belong to Christ and yet want to sue somebody and make them pay. How can you trust that Jesus died to take away your sins against him, yet sue others for sinning against you? How can you be filled with the Holy Spirit of love and peace, yet launch a lawsuit that may include slandering and swindling your opponent? How can you be a citizen of God's kingdom, yet go to court rather than count on God to judge?

Old habits die hard, but they must die. Don't fall back into behaving like your old, sinful self. Don't act like the sort of person you were without Christ. Act like who you are in Christ: a child of God who will someday share in God's good government of the world; a member of God's family who counts on brothers and sisters in the church more than on civil courts; a peacemaker eager to do good even if you must endure harm. The Bible says, "If you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps" (1 Peter 2:20-21).

If you're a follower of Jesus and have been born again with a new spiritual nature, then be who you are! You were once wicked, doing things the world's way, but that's not who you are anymore. There's a new you. And the new you shouldn't sue.