Politics

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

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

If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy 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 have understanding;

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

For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

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

And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.

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

When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man beareth rule, the people sigh.

If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.

Righteousness exalteth a nation; But sin is a reproach to any people.

Let his days be few; Andlet another take his office.

if my people, who 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 Jehovah as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto 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 also will forget thy children.

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

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute? — 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 him, Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath greater sin.

And the man that doeth presumptuously, in not hearkening unto the priest that standeth to minister there before Jehovah 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 Lord’s servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, — 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 had a suit which should come 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, that they might catch him in talk. — read the full passage →

For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, 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, through 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 perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment. — read the full passage →

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: — read the full passage →

And David spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah 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: Jehovah shall rule over you. — read the full passage →

And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go ye, and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into 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, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. — read the full passage →

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

know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap unto you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you. — read the full passage →

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: Ifit benothe, who then is it?

Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.

Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is skilful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Jehovah is with him.

Then the king said to the wise men, who 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 Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. — read the full passage →

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

Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroyeth the understanding. — 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 man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly. — read the full passage →

And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain. — 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 Jehovah your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Jehovah, and before his people.

And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Jehovah’s vengeance on Midian.

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

Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto 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 Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. — read the full passage →

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

For the king will hear, to deliver his servant 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: Jehovah hath sought him a man after his own heart, and Jehovah hath appointed him to be prince over his people, because thou hast not kept that which Jehovah commanded thee. — read the full passage →

And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day Jehovah hath wrought deliverance in Israel. — read the full passage →

And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even 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 to us-ward. — 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 doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her. — read the full passage →

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy; For thou wilt judge the peoples with equity, And govern the nations upon earth. [Selah

Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst rely on Jehovah, he delivered them into thy hand. — read the full passage →

I have confidence to you-ward in 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 Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah. — 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, a faithful town. — read the full passage →

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

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

Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons 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 men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it unto whom it seemeth right unto me. — read the full passage →

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

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it. — read the full passage →

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

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

By me princes rule, And nobles, evenall the judges of the earth. — read the full passage →

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

For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds); — read the full passage →

And that which fell among the thorns, these are they that have heard, and as they go on their way they 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 draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went 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 looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two lads of them. — read the full passage →

So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was a thing brought about of Jehovah, that he might establish his word, which Jehovah spake by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. — read the full passage →

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

Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back. — read the full passage →

Blessed be Jehovah my rock, Who teacheth my hands to war, Andmy fingers to fight: — read the full passage →

Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me. — read the full passage →