Ecclesiastes 8:2
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Obey Authorities for God’s Sake
2 I say, “Keep the king’s commandment (A)for the sake of your oath to God.
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1 Kings 2:43
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43 Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the commandment that I gave you?”
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Titus 3:1
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Graces of the Heirs of Grace
3 Remind them (A)to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, (B)to be ready for every good work,
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Proverbs 24:21
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21 My son, (A)fear the Lord and the king;
Do not associate with those given to change;
1 Peter 2:13-17
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Submission to Government(A)
13 (B)Therefore submit yourselves to every [a]ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, 14 or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. 15 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men— 16 (C)as free, yet not (D)using liberty as a cloak for [b]vice, but as bondservants of God. 17 Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear (E)God. Honor the king.
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- 1 Peter 2:13 institution
- 1 Peter 2:16 wickedness
Romans 13:1-5
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Submit to Government
13 Let every soul be (A)subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists (B)the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will [a]bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? (C)Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. 4 For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. 5 Therefore (D)you must be subject, not only because of wrath (E)but also for conscience’ sake.
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- Romans 13:2 Lit. receive
Ezekiel 17:13-20
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13 (A)And he took the king’s offspring, made a covenant with him, (B)and put him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land, 14 that the kingdom might be (C)brought low and not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. 15 But (D)he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, (E)that they might give him horses and many people. (F)Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and still be delivered?
16 ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘surely (G)in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke—with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. 17 (H)Nor will Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company do anything in the war, (I)when they heap up a siege mound and build a [a]wall to cut off many persons. 18 Since he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and in fact (J)gave[b] his hand and still did all these things, he shall not escape.’ ”
19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense on his own head. 20 I will (K)spread My net over him, and he shall be taken in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and (L)try him there for the [c]treason which he committed against Me.
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- Ezekiel 17:17 Or siege wall
- Ezekiel 17:18 Took an oath
- Ezekiel 17:20 Lit. unfaithful act
1 Chronicles 29:24
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24 All the leaders and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, (A)submitted[a] themselves to King Solomon.
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- 1 Chronicles 29:24 Lit. gave the hand
2 Samuel 21:7
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7 But the king spared (A)Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of (B)the Lord’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
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Exodus 22:11
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11 then an (A)oath of the Lord shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand into his neighbor’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept that, and he shall not make it good.
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