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Romans 13:1-5 ESV / 479 helpful votes Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience.Titus 3:1 ESV / 377 helpful votes Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,Romans 2:13 ESV / 347 helpful votes For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.1 Peter 2:13-17 ESV / 268 helpful votes Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.Romans 3:31 ESV / 210 helpful votes Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.John 14:21 ESV / 192 helpful votes Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”Acts 5:29 ESV / 190 helpful votes But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.Romans 13:1 ESV / 179 helpful votes Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.1 John 2:4 ESV / 175 helpful votes Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,Galatians 3:11 ESV / 161 helpful votes Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 157 helpful votes But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 156 helpful votes Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. …Luke 20:25 ESV / 140 helpful votes He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
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