We put aside all secret and shameful deeds; we do not act with deceit, nor do we falsify the word of God. In the full light of truth we live in God's sight and try to commend ourselves to everyone's good conscience.

Children, it is your Christian duty to obey your parents, for this is the right thing to do.

This is good and it pleases God our Savior,

Peter and the other apostles answered, "We must obey God, not men.

But the midwives were God-fearing and so did not obey the king; instead, they let the boys live.

And so the people sinned, going to worship in Bethel and in Dan.

The LORD will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin."

The officials and leading citizens of Jezreel did what Jezebel had commanded.

But Micaiah answered, "By the living LORD I promise that I will say what he tells me to!"

Then he ordered Uriah: "Use this large altar of mine for the morning burnt offerings and the evening grain offerings, for the burnt offerings and grain offerings of the king and the people, and for the people's wine offerings. Pour on it the blood of all the animals that are sacrificed. But keep the bronze altar for me to use for divination."

But when King Uzziah became strong, he grew arrogant, and that led to his downfall. He defied the LORD his God by going into the Temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

to resist him. They said, "Uzziah! You have no right to burn incense to the LORD. Only the priests who are descended from Aaron have been consecrated to do this. Leave this holy place. You have offended the LORD God, and you no longer have his blessing."

Azariah and the other priests stared at the king's forehead in horror and then forced him to leave the Temple. He hurried to get out, because the LORD had punished him.

But even if he doesn't, Your Majesty may be sure that we will not worship your god, and we will not bow down to the gold statue that you have set up."

When Daniel learned that the order had been signed, he went home. In an upstairs room of his house there were windows that faced toward Jerusalem. There, just as he had always done, he knelt down at the open windows and prayed to God three times a day.

Israel is suffering oppression; she has lost land that was rightfully hers, because she insisted on going for help to those who had none to give.

So now listen to what the LORD says. You tell me to stop prophesying, to stop raving against the people of Israel.

This will happen because you have followed the evil practices of King Omri and of his son, King Ahab. You have continued their policies, and so I will bring you to ruin, and everyone will despise you. People everywhere will treat you with contempt."

"The Emperor's," they answered. So Jesus said to them, "Well, then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and pay to God what belongs to God."

It was faith that made the parents of Moses hide him for three months after he was born. They saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid to disobey the king's order.

One of the heads of the beast seemed to have been fatally wounded, but the wound had healed. The whole earth was amazed and followed the beast.

The beast was allowed to make proud claims which were insulting to God, and it was permitted to have authority for forty-two months.

It was allowed to fight against God's people and to defeat them, and it was given authority over every tribe, nation, language, and race.

"Listen, then, if you have ears!

A third angel followed the first two, saying in a loud voice, "Those who worship the beast and its image and receive the mark on their forehead or on their hand

The smoke of the fire that torments them goes up forever and ever. There is no relief day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, for anyone who has the mark of its name."

Do you rulers ever give a just decision? Do you judge everyone fairly?

Stop judging by external standards, and judge by true standards."

I speak to you as sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

then you are guilty of creating distinctions among yourselves and of making judgments based on evil motives.