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Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, since they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.
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1 Timothy 1 10
for the sexually immoral and males who have sex with males, for slave traders, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching
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1 Peter 2 17
Honor everyone. Love the brothers and sisters. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
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2 Peter 2 10-2 Peter 2 12
especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold, arrogant people! They are not afraid to slander the glorious ones;however, angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring a slanderous charge against them before the Lord.But these people, like irrational animals— creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed— slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.
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Ecclesiastes 10:20
Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, and do not curse a rich person even in your bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry the message, and a winged creature may report the matter.
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Acts 23:5
“ I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest,” replied Paul.“ For it is written, You must not speak evil of a ruler of your people.”
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Luke 19:14
“ But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying,‘ We don’t want this man to rule over us.’
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Jeremiah 38:25-28
The officials may hear that I have spoken with you and come and demand of you,‘ Tell us what you said to the king; don’t hide anything from us and we won’t kill you. Also, what did the king say to you?’If they do, tell them,‘ I was bringing before the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”All the officials did come to Jeremiah, and they questioned him. He reported the exact words to them the king had commanded, and they quit speaking with him because the conversation had not been overheard.Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard until the day Jerusalem was captured, and he was there when it happened.
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Numbers 16:3
They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them,“ You have gone too far! Everyone in the entire community is holy, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the LORD’s assembly?”
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Acts 7:27
“ But the one who was mistreating his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying: Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?
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Psalms 2:1-6
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers conspire together against the LORD and his Anointed One:“ Let’s tear off their chains and throw their ropes off of us.”The one enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord ridicules them.Then he speaks to them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath:“ I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”
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Exodus 22:28
“ You must not blaspheme God or curse a leader among your people.
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1 Corinthians 3 17
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and that is what you are.
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Jude 1:9-10
Yet when Michael the archangel was disputing with the devil in an argument about Moses’s body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said,“ The Lord rebuke you!”But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct— like irrational animals— by these things they are destroyed.
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Proverbs 30:17
As for the eye that ridicules a father and despises obedience to a mother, may ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures eat it.
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Genesis 3:5
“ In fact, God knows that when you eat 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 boastfully.They say,“ Through our tongues we have power; our lips are our own— who can be our master?”
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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
Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said,“ We will not come!Is it not enough that you brought us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Do you also have to appoint yourself as ruler over us?
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1 Thessalonians 4 8
Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
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Acts 7:39
Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.