Romans 13:4
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
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Romans 13:4
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
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Exodus 21:20
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
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Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
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Deuteronomy 32:43
Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.
Psalms 94:2
Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
Psalms 94:3
Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
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1 Samuel 24:6
He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”
Ezra 7:26
Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
2 Peter 2:10
but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,
Jude 1:8
Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
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Proverbs 20:2
The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
Proverbs 20:8
A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
Ecclesiastes 8:3
Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
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Matthew 26:52
Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.
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1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
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2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
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