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Hebrews 13:17
Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.
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1 Timothy 1 10
for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,
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1 Peter 2 17
Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
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2 Peter 2 10-2 Peter 2 12
and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,
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Ecclesiastes 10:20
Do not curse the king, even in your thought; Do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom; For a bird of the air may carry your voice, And a bird in flight may tell the matter.
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Acts 23:5
Then Paul said,“ I did not know, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written,‘ You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”
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Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying,‘ We will not have this man to reign over us.’
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Jeremiah 38:25-28
But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you and say to you,‘ Declare to us now what you have said to the king, and also what the king said to you; do not hide it from us, and we will not put you to death,’then you shall say to them,‘ I presented my request before the king, that he would not make me return to Jonathan’s house to die there.’”Then all the princes came to Jeremiah and asked him. And he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him, for the conversation had not been heard.Now Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken. And he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
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Numbers 16:3
They gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them,“ You take too much upon yourselves, for all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”
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Acts 7:27
But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying,‘ Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
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Psalms 2:1-6
Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing?The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,“ Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.”He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision.Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure:“ Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.”
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Exodus 22:28
“ You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
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1 Corinthians 3 17
If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
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Jude 1:9-10
Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said,“ The Lord rebuke you!”But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.
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Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks his father, And scorns obedience to his mother, The ravens of the valley will pick it out, And the young eagles will eat it.
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Genesis 3:5
For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
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Psalms 12:3-4
May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things,Who have said,“ With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; Who is Lord over us?”
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Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curses its father, And does not bless its mother.
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Numbers 16:12-13
And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, but they said,“ We will not come up!Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you should keep acting like a prince over us?
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1 Thessalonians 4 8
Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.
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Acts 7:39
whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,