Politics

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cesar, or not? — read the full passage →

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: — read the full passage →

And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; — read the full passage →

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? — read the full passage →

After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. — read the full passage →

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel. — read the full passage →

And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. — read the full passage →

For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for he had married her. — read the full passage →

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. — read the full passage →

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. — read the full passage →

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: — read the full passage →

And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: — read the full passage →

And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the Lord shall rule over you. — read the full passage →

And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. — read the full passage →

For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. — read the full passage →

Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. — read the full passage →

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you. — read the full passage →

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth–lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him.

Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment:

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. — read the full passage →

And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. — read the full passage →

Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon. — read the full passage →

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. — read the full passage →

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. — read the full passage →

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. — read the full passage →

Is not the Lord your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people.

And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midian.

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. — read the full passage →

Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews. — read the full passage →

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. — read the full passage →

Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. — read the full passage →

For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee. — read the full passage →

And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the Lord hath wrought salvation in Israel. — read the full passage →

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. — read the full passage →

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. — read the full passage →

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, — read the full passage →

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. — read the full passage →

O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thine hand. — read the full passage →

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. — read the full passage →

Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. — read the full passage →

And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. — read the full passage →

O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: — read the full passage →

After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. — read the full passage →

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. — read the full passage →

And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. — read the full passage →

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. — read the full passage →

When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. — read the full passage →

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. — read the full passage →

Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people. — read the full passage →

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. — read the full passage →

By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. — read the full passage →

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. — read the full passage →

For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) — read the full passage →

And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. — read the full passage →

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, — read the full passage →

And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. — read the full passage →

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. — read the full passage →

Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; — read the full passage →

O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee. — read the full passage →

And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. — read the full passage →

Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the Lord, that he might perform his saying, which the Lord spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat. — read the full passage →

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. — read the full passage →

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; — read the full passage →

Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: — read the full passage →

I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. — read the full passage →