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Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 352 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. …Romans 13:1 ESV / 228 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 Peter 2:13-17 ESV / 156 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 13:2 ESV / 139 helpful votes Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.Acts 5:29 ESV / 122 helpful votes But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.James 2:12 ESV / 78 helpful votes So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 73 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. …Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 63 helpful votes Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. …Romans 13:8 ESV / 59 helpful votes Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.Romans 13:4 ESV / 58 helpful votes 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.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 56 helpful votes But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.Titus 3:1 ESV / 55 helpful votes Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,Romans 3:20 ESV / 54 helpful votes For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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