Ecclesiastes 8:4
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4 For the word of the king is supreme, and (A)who may say to him, “What are you doing?”
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Romans 13:1-4
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Submission to the Authorities
13 Let every person (A)be subject to the governing authorities. For (B)there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you (C)will receive his approval, 4 for (D)he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, (E)an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
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Job 9:12
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12 Behold, he snatches away; (A)who can turn him back?
(B)Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
Daniel 4:35
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35 (A)all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
and (B)he does according to his will among the host of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth;
(C)and none can stay his hand
or (D)say to him, “What have you done?”
Romans 9:20
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20 But who are you, O man, (A)to answer back to God? (B)Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
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Proverbs 20:2
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2 The terror of a king is like (A)the growling of a lion;
whoever provokes him to anger (B)forfeits his life.
Proverbs 19:12
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Job 34:18-19
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18 who (A)says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’
and to nobles, ‘Wicked man,’
19 who (B)shows no partiality to princes,
nor regards the rich (C)more than the poor,
for (D)they are all the work of his hands?
Luke 12:4-5
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Have No Fear
4 “I tell you, my friends, (A)do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him (B)who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell.[a] Yes, I tell you, fear him!
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- Luke 12:5 Greek Gehenna
Daniel 3:15
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15 Now if you are ready when (A)you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good.[a] But if you do not worship, (B)you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And (C)who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”
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- Daniel 3:15 Aramaic lacks well and good
Proverbs 30:31
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- Proverbs 30:31 Or the magpie, or the greyhound; Hebrew girt-of-loins
- Proverbs 30:31 Or against whom there is no rising up
Job 33:12-13
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1 Kings 2:46
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46 Then the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died.
(A)So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
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1 Kings 2:29-34
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29 And when it was told King Solomon, “Joab has fled to the tent of the Lord, and behold, he is beside the altar,” Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down.” 30 So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord and said to him, “The king commands, ‘Come out.’” But he said, “No, I will die here.” Then Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.” 31 The king replied to him, (A)“Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, (B)and thus take away from me and from my father's house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause. 32 The Lord will (C)bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men (D)more righteous and better than himself, (E)Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and (F)Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. 33 (G)So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the Lord forevermore.” 34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck him down and put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
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1 Kings 2:25
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25 So King Solomon sent (A)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he struck him down, and he died.
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