1 Peter 2:13
Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,
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1 Peter 2:13
Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,
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1 Peter 2:14
And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well.
1 Peter 2:15
Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:
1 Peter 2:16
As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;
1 Peter 2:17
Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.
Titus 3:1
Make clear to them that they are to put themselves under rulers and authorities, to do what they are ordered, to be ready for every good work,
Titus 3:2
To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.
Romans 13:7
Give to all what is their right: taxes to him whose they are, payment to him whose right it is, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour is to be given.
1 Timothy 2:2
For kings and all those in authority; so that we may have a calm and quiet life in all fear of God and serious behaviour.
Matthew 17:27
But, so that we may not be a cause of trouble to them, go to the sea, and let down a hook, and take the first fish which comes up; and in his mouth you will see a bit of money: take that, and give it to them for me and you.
Mark 12:17
And Jesus said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's. And they were full of wonder at him.
Jude 1:8
In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.
2 Peter 2:10
But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:
1 Samuel 24:6
And David said to his men, Before the Lord, never let it be said that my hand was lifted up against my lord, the man of the Lord's selection, for the Lord's holy oil has been put on him.
Matthew 17:25
He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus said to him, What is your opinion, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth get payment or tax? from their sons or from other people?
Acts 25:11
If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.
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Romans 13:1
Let everyone put himself under the authority of the higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God.
Romans 13:2
For which reason everyone who puts himself against the authority puts himself against the order of God: and those who are against it will get punishment for themselves.
Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;
Romans 13:4
For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.
Romans 13:5
So put yourselves under the authority, not for fear of wrath, but because you have the knowledge of what is right.
Romans 13:6
For the same reason, make payment of taxes; because the authority is God's servant, to take care of such things at all times.
Proverbs 24:21
My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions:
Matthew 22:21
They say to him, Caesar's. Then he said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.
Ecclesiastes 8:2
I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.
Ecclesiastes 8:3
Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
Ecclesiastes 8:4
The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
Ezra 7:26
And if anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him, by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
Deuteronomy 17:12
And any man who, in his pride, will not give ear to the priest whose place is there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, is to be put to death: you are to put away the evil from Israel.
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1 Peter 2:18
Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured.
1 Peter 2:19
For it is a sign of grace if a man, desiring to do right in the eyes of God, undergoes pain as punishment for something which he has not done.
Ephesians 6:5
Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;
Ephesians 6:6
Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;
Ephesians 6:7
Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:
Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;
Colossians 3:24
Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.
Ephesians 6:1
Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.
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1 Peter 2:12
Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.
Ephesians 5:21
Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.
Ephesians 5:22
Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1
Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives,
Hebrews 13:17
Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1 Peter 1:15
But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;
1 Peter 5:5
And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
Romans 6:19
I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
Philippians 2:3
Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;
Hebrews 11:13
All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.
1 Peter 2:1
So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,
1 Peter 2:10
In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.
1 Peter 3:16
Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.
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1 Peter 2:11
My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
1 Peter 3:7
And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.
1 Peter 3:8
Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:
1 Peter 3:5
And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands:
1 Peter 2:2
Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
1 Peter 5:10
And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;
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1 Timothy 2:1
My desire is, first of all, that you will make requests and prayers and give praise for all men;
Jeremiah 29:7
And be working for the peace of the land to which I have had you taken away prisoners, and make prayer to the Lord for it: for in its peace you will have peace.
Zechariah 13:3
And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.
Luke 20:25
And he said, Then give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.
Acts 4:19
But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:
1 Timothy 2:3
This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;
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Mark 16:15
And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.
Romans 8:19
For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.
Romans 8:20
For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope
Romans 8:21
That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.
Romans 8:22
For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.
Colossians 1:23
If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
Romans 1:20
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
Hebrews 4:13
And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Romans 1:25
Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.
2 Peter 3:4
Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.
Mark 10:6
But from the first, male and female made he them.
Mark 13:19
For in those days there will be sorrow, such as there has not been from the time when God made the world till now, and will not ever be again.
Romans 8:39
Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Colossians 1:15
Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
Revelation 3:14
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order:
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Hebrews 9:11
But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,
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Luke 23:2
And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.
John 19:15
Then they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said in answer, We have no king but Caesar.
Ezra 4:12
We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are building up again that uncontrolled and evil town; the walls are complete and they are joining up the bases.
Ezra 4:15
So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.
Ezra 4:19
And I gave orders for a search to be made, and it is certain that in the past this town has made trouble for kings, and that outbursts against authority have taken place there.
Nehemiah 6:6
And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king;
Esther 3:8
And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.
Luke 23:5
But they became more violent than before, saying, He has made trouble among the people, teaching through all Judaea from Galilee to this place.
Acts 17:7
Whom Jason has taken into his house: and they are acting against the orders of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.
Acts 24:5
For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes:
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Luke 21:12
But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.
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