Politics

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

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

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

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

Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” — read the full passage →

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you; — read the full passage →

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

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

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Let his days be few. Let 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 I will 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 my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute? — read the full passage →

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

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel. — read the full passage →

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. It was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.” — read the full passage →

They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words. — read the full passage →

For Herod himself had sent out and arrested 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 →

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

Don’t put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.

Then a wise woman cried out of the city, “Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come near here, that I may speak with you.’” — read the full passage →

When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel. — read the full passage →

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment. — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: — read the full passage →

David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: — read the full passage →

Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.” — read the full passage →

I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!” — read the full passage →

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God. — read the full passage →

Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.” — read the full passage →

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

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

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.”

Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times, (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill 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 →

David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding. — read the full passage →

Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, even from Babylon.” — read the full passage →

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior. — read the full passage →

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed. — 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 →

“Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.

Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. — read the full passage →

Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any 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 Solomon said, “Yahweh has 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 who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

But now your kingdom shall not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.” — read the full passage →

Saul said, “There shall not a man be put to death this day; for today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel.” — read the full passage →

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

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

When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them, — read the full passage →

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her. — read the full passage →

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.

Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand. — read the full passage →

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’ — read the full passage →

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you. — 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 one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. — read the full passage →

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 animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me. — read the full passage →

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

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it. — read the full passage →

Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’” — read the full passage →

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth. — read the full passage →

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. — read the full passage →

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

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

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. — read the full passage →

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

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 when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.” — read the full passage →

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

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you.” — read the full passage →

He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths. — read the full passage →

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about of Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. — read the full passage →

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! — read the full passage →

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle: — read the full passage →

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me. — read the full passage →