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Hebrews 13:17
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.
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1 Timothy 1 10
the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
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1 Peter 2 17
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
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2 Peter 2 10-2 Peter 2 12
and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
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Ecclesiastes 10:20
Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.
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Acts 23:5
And Paul said,“ I did not know, brothers, 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 do not want this man to reign over us.’
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Jeremiah 38:25-28
If the officials hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you,‘ Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,’then you shall say to them,‘ I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they stopped speaking with him, for the conversation had not been overheard.And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
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Numbers 16:3
They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them,“ You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are 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 the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, 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 peoples plot in vain?The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,“ Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,“ As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”
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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 destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
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Jude 1:9-10
But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said,“ The Lord rebuke you.”But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.
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Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
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Genesis 3:5
For God knows that when 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, the tongue that makes great boasts,those who say,“ With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
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Proverbs 30:11
There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
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Numbers 16:12-13
And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and 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 must also make yourself a prince over us?
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1 Thessalonians 4 8
Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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Acts 7:39
Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,