Politics

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain.

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

tell us, therefore, what dost thou think? is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?' — read the full passage →

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you, — read the full passage →

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await--the Lord Jesus Christ--

to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

Jesus answered, `Thou wouldest have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil, — read the full passage →

and they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may ensnare him in discourse, — read the full passage →

For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her, — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment, — read the full passage →

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light; — read the full passage →

And I heard a great voice out of the sanctuary saying to the seven messengers, `Go away, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God to the earth;' — read the full passage →

for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God, — read the full passage →

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate-- — read the full passage →

And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; — read the full passage →

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us; — read the full passage →

and having brought them, they set <FI>them<Fi> in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them, — read the full passage →

I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be. — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, — read the full passage →

and Paul said, `I did not know, brethren, that he is chief priest: for it hath been written, Of the ruler of thy people thou shalt not speak evil;' — read the full passage →

I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty--yet thou art rich--and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but <FI>are<Fi> a synagogue of the Adversary. — read the full passage →

for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known <FI>it<Fi> ;

for the weapons of our warfare <FI>are<Fi> not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →

`And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion. — read the full passage →

Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us, — read the full passage →