Bible Cross References
I counsel
Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear Jehovah and the king; and do not fellowship with those who are given to change;
Romans 13:1-4
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Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are ordained by God.
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Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will receive judgment on themselves.
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For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.
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For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.
Titus 3:1
Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey superiors, to be ready for every good work,
1 Peter 2:13-17
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Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man because of the Lord; whether to the king as supreme,
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or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good.
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For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men;
16
as free, yet not using liberty as a pretext for evil, but as bondservants of God.
17
Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
in regard
1 Kings 2:43
Why then have you not kept the oath of Jehovah and the commandment that I have charged you with?
1 Chronicles 29:24
All the rulers and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, set themselves under the hand of King Solomon.
Ezekiel 17:13-20
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And he has taken the king's seed, made a covenant with him, and put him under oath. He also has taken away the mighty of the land,
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that the kingdom might be low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by the keeping of his covenant it might stand.
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But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and still be delivered?
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As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, there he shall die with him in the midst of Babylon.
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Nor will Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company do anything in the war, when they heap up a siege mound and build a wall to cut off many persons.
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Since he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and in fact gave his hand and still did all these things, he shall not escape.
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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense upon his own head.
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And I will spread My net over him, and he shall be taken in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and judge him there for the treason by which he betrayed Me.
Romans 13:5
Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.