Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
Titus 3:1 ESV / 539 helpful votes
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
Romans 2:13 ESV / 491 helpful votes
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
1 Peter 2:13-17 ESV / 377 helpful votes
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
Romans 3:31 ESV / 326 helpful votes
Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Acts 5:29 ESV / 315 helpful votes
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Romans 13:1 ESV / 234 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
John 14:21 ESV / 232 helpful votes
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
1 John 2:4 ESV / 222 helpful votes
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 216 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
Galatians 3:11 ESV / 205 helpful votes
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Luke 20:25 ESV / 205 helpful votes
He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 201 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 178 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
John 14:15 ESV / 166 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Galatians 5:14 ESV / 155 helpful votes
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 154 helpful votes
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Galatians 3:21 ESV / 150 helpful votes
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
Matthew 22:21 ESV / 149 helpful votes
They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
2 John 1:6 ESV / 146 helpful votes
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 140 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Matthew 5:17-19 ESV / 139 helpful votes
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
1 Peter 2:13 ESV / 138 helpful votes
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,
Luke 11:28 ESV / 132 helpful votes
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Acts 5:32 ESV / 130 helpful votes
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
1 Peter 2:13-14 ESV / 128 helpful votes
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.
Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 127 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Romans 13:1-2 ESV / 123 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
James 1:25 ESV / 122 helpful votes
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 121 helpful votes
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
1 Samuel 15:22 ESV / 118 helpful votes
And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Romans 3:20 ESV / 117 helpful votes
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
1 John 3:4 ESV / 115 helpful votes
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
Galatians 5:4 ESV / 115 helpful votes
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 113 helpful votes
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 112 helpful votes
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
Romans 1:5 ESV / 112 helpful votes
Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Acts 5:27-29 ESV / 111 helpful votes
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.” But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
1 John 3:21-22 ESV / 106 helpful votes
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
Romans 13:7 ESV / 104 helpful votes
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Romans 13:4 ESV / 100 helpful votes
For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 99 helpful votes
But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. ...
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 98 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 95 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...
John 3:16 ESV / 93 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 92 helpful votes
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplie
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Romans 13:1-5 ESV / 586 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
Titus 3:1 ESV / 539 helpful votes
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
Romans 2:13 ESV / 491 helpful votes
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
1 Peter 2:13-17 ESV / 377 helpful votes
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
Romans 3:31 ESV / 326 helpful votes
Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Acts 5:29 ESV / 315 helpful votes
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Romans 13:1 ESV / 234 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
John 14:21 ESV / 232 helpful votes
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
1 John 2:4 ESV / 222 helpful votes
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 216 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
Galatians 3:11 ESV / 205 helpful votes
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Luke 20:25 ESV / 205 helpful votes
He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 201 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 178 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
John 14:15 ESV / 166 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Galatians 5:14 ESV / 155 helpful votes
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 154 helpful votes
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Galatians 3:21 ESV / 150 helpful votes
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
Matthew 22:21 ESV / 149 helpful votes
They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
2 John 1:6 ESV / 146 helpful votes
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 140 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Matthew 5:17-19 ESV / 139 helpful votes
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
1 Peter 2:13 ESV / 138 helpful votes
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,
Luke 11:28 ESV / 132 helpful votes
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Acts 5:32 ESV / 130 helpful votes
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
1 Peter 2:13-14 ESV / 128 helpful votes
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.
Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 127 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Romans 13:1-2 ESV / 123 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
James 1:25 ESV / 122 helpful votes
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 121 helpful votes
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
1 Samuel 15:22 ESV / 118 helpful votes
And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Romans 3:20 ESV / 117 helpful votes
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
1 John 3:4 ESV / 115 helpful votes
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
Galatians 5:4 ESV / 115 helpful votes
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 113 helpful votes
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 112 helpful votes
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
Romans 1:5 ESV / 112 helpful votes
Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Acts 5:27-29 ESV / 111 helpful votes
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.” But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
1 John 3:21-22 ESV / 106 helpful votes
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
Romans 13:7 ESV / 104 helpful votes
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Romans 13:4 ESV / 100 helpful votes
For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 99 helpful votes
But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. ...
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 98 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 95 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...
John 3:16 ESV / 93 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 92 helpful votes
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplie