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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.

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Genesis 18:19
For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

Psalms 101:1
A Psalm. Of David. I will make a song of mercy and righteousness; to you, O Lord, will I make melody.

Psalms 101:2
I will do wisely in the way of righteousness: O when will you come to me? I will be walking in my house with a true heart.

Psalms 101:3
I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.

Psalms 101:4
The false heart I will send away from me: I will not have an evil-doer for a friend.

Psalms 101:5
I will put to death anyone who says evil of his neighbour secretly; the man with a high look and a heart of pride is disgusting to me.

Psalms 101:6
My eyes will be on those of good faith in the land, so that they may be living in my house; he who is walking in the right way will be my servant.

Psalms 101:7
The worker of deceit will not come into my house; the false man will have no place before my eyes.

Psalms 101:8
Morning by morning will I put to death all the sinners in the land, so that all evil-doers may be cut off from Jerusalem.

Acts 13:12
Then the ruler, when he saw what was done, had faith, being full of wonder at the teaching of the Lord.

Acts 20:28
Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.

1 Corinthians 12:28
And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.

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Exodus 1:17
But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.

Exodus 1:20
And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.

Exodus 1:21
And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.

Psalms 119:6
Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.

Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.

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:

Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.

1 Peter 3:13
Who will do you any damage if you keep your minds fixed on what is good?

1 Peter 3:14
But you are happy if you undergo pain because of righteousness; have no part in their fear and do not be troubled;

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Exodus 14:31
And Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done against the Egyptians, and the fear of the Lord came on the people and they had faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

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Exodus 18:13
Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.

Exodus 18:22
And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.

Exodus 18:26
And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.

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Exodus 21:17
Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

Exodus 22:28
You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your people.

Proverbs 17:11
An uncontrolled man is only looking for trouble, so a cruel servant will be sent against him.

Ecclesiastes 10:20
Say not a curse against the king, even in your thoughts; and even secretly say not a curse against the man of wealth; because a bird of the air will take the voice, and that which has wings will give news of it.

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.

Acts 23:3
Then Paul said to him, God will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be my judge by law, and by your orders am I given blows against the law?

Acts 23:5
And Paul said, Brother, I had no idea that he was the high priest: for it has been said, You may not say evil about the ruler of your people.

Ephesians 5:21
Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.

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.

Jude 1:9
Now when Michael, one of the chief angels, was fighting against the Evil One for the body of Moses, fearing to make use of violent words against him, he only said, May the Lord be your judge.

Jude 1:10
But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

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Deuteronomy 17:11
Acting in agreement with their teaching and the decision they give: not turning to one side or the other from the word they have given you.

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.

Deuteronomy 17:14
When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;

Deuteronomy 17:15
Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.

Joshua 1:7
Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.

Malachi 2:8
But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.

Malachi 2:9
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

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Judges 5:10
Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.

Job 29:7
When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

Isaiah 16:5
Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.

Joel 3:12
Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about.

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1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on his head and gave him a kiss and said, Is not the Lord with the holy oil making you ruler over Israel, his people? and you will have authority over the people of the Lord, and you will make them safe from the hands of their attackers round about them, and this will be the sign for you:

1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.

1 Samuel 12:5
Then he said, The Lord is witness against you, and the man on whom he has put the holy oil is witness this day that you have seen no wrong in me. And they said, He is witness.

1 Samuel 24:10
Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.

1 Samuel 26:9
And David said to Abishai Do not put him to death; for who, without sin, may put out his hand against the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil?

2 Samuel 1:14
And David said to him, Had you no fear of stretching out your hand to put to death the one marked with the holy oil?

2 Samuel 1:15
And David sent for one of his young men and said, Go near and put an end to him. And he put him to death.

2 Samuel 1:16
And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.

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1 Samuel 10:25
Then Samuel gave the people the laws of the kingdom, writing them in a book which he put in a safe place before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

2 Samuel 5:3
So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

2 Kings 11:17
And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord's people; and in the same way between the king and the people.

1 Chronicles 11:3
So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.

2 Chronicles 23:16
And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and all the people and the king, that they would be the Lord's people.

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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.

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Ezra 4:14
Now because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honour damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things,

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1 Kings 10:9
May the Lord your God be praised, whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; because the Lord's love for Israel is eternal, he has made you king, to be their judge in righteousness.

2 Chronicles 19:6
And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.

Psalms 82:1
A Psalm. Of Asaph. God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.

Psalms 82:2
How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)

Psalms 82:3
Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.

Psalms 82:4
Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.

Proverbs 24:23
These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

Proverbs 24:24
He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.

Proverbs 31:8
Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

Proverbs 31:9
Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

Isaiah 1:17
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

Jeremiah 5:28
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

John 10:34
In answer, Jesus said, Is there not a saying in your law, I said, You are gods?

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Psalms 103:21
Give praise to the Lord, all you his armies; and you his servants who do his pleasure.

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Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,

Psalms 137:2
Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.

Psalms 137:3
For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.

Psalms 137:4
How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?

Psalms 137:5
If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

Psalms 137:6
If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.

Psalms 137:7
O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base.

Psalms 137:8
O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.

Psalms 137:9
Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.

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Proverbs 22:7
The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.

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Micah 3:1
And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?

Micah 3:2
You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

Micah 3:9
Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.

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Isaiah 33:6
And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.

Matthew 3:15
But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.

Romans 2:27
And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

Romans 13:9
And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Romans 13:10
Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

Romans 13:11
See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

Romans 13:13
With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

1 Timothy 2:3
This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;

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Matthew 9:9
And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him.

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Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.

Jeremiah 27:17
Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?

Matthew 23:3
All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

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Acts 1:14
And they all with one mind gave themselves up to prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Acts 2:42
And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.

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Ezra 4:20
Further, there have been great kings in Jerusalem, ruling over all the country across the river, to whom they gave taxes and payments in goods and forced payments.

Ezra 6:8
Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: that from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped.

Matthew 22:18
But Jesus saw their trick and said, Oh false ones, why are you attempting to put me in the wrong?

Matthew 22:19
Let me see the tax money. And they gave him a penny.

Matthew 22:20
And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it?

Mark 12:15
Are we to give or not to give? But he, conscious of their false hearts, said to them, Why do you put me to the test? give me a penny, so that I may see it.

Mark 12:16
And they gave him one. And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it? And they said to him, Caesar's.

Luke 20:21
And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God:

Luke 20:23
But he saw through their trick and said to them,

Luke 20:24
Let me see a penny. Whose image and name are on it? And they said, Caesar's.

Luke 20:26
And they were not able to get anything from these words before the people: but they were full of wonder at his answer, and said nothing.

Acts 5:37
After this man, there was Judas of Galilee, at the time of the numbering, and some of the people went after him: he was put to death, and all his supporters were put to flight.

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Acts 25:10
And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see.

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.

Revelation 17:8
The beast which you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the great deep, and to go into destruction. And those who are on the earth, whose names have not been put in the book of life from the first, will be full of wonder when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and still will be.

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Romans 4:16
For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

1 Corinthians 11:10
For this reason it is right for the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

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Romans 15:15
But I have, in some measure, less fear in writing to you to put these things before you again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,

Romans 15:27
Yes, it has been their good pleasure; and they are in their debt. For if the Gentiles have had a part in the things of the Spirit which were theirs, it is right for them, in the same way, to give them help in the things of the flesh.

2 Corinthians 9:12
For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God;

Philippians 1:27
Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;

Philippians 2:17
And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

Philippians 2:30
Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.

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Psalms 4:3
See how the Lord has made great his mercy for me; the Lord will give ear to my cry.

Luke 10:7
And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.

1 Thessalonians 5:12
But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;

1 Thessalonians 5:13
And have a high opinion of them in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

1 Thessalonians 5:14
And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.

1 Timothy 3:4
Ruling his house well, having his children under control with all serious behaviour;

1 Timothy 3:5
(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

1 Timothy 5:17
Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.

Hebrews 13:7
Keep in mind those who were over you, and who gave you the word of God; seeing the outcome of their way of life, let your faith be like theirs.

Hebrews 13:24
Give words of love from me to those who are rulers over you, and to all the saints. Those who are in Italy send you their love.

1 Peter 5:2
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;

1 Peter 5:3
Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

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1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.

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