Exodus 22:28
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28 (A)“You shall not revile God, nor (B)curse a ruler of your people.
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Acts 23:5
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5 And Paul said, (A)“I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, (B)‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”
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Ecclesiastes 10:20
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20 Even in your thoughts, (A)do not curse the king,
nor in your (B)bedroom curse the rich,
for a bird of the air will carry your voice,
or some winged creature tell the matter.
Jude 8
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8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and (A)blaspheme the glorious ones.
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2 Peter 2:10
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10 and especially (A)those who indulge[a] in the lust of defiling passion and (B)despise authority.
Bold and willful, they do not tremble (C)as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
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- 2 Peter 2:10 Greek who go after the flesh
Titus 3:1-2
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Romans 13:2-7
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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 (A)will receive his approval, 4 for (B)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, (C)an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also (D)for the sake of conscience. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 (E)Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
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Exodus 22:8-9
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8 If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property. 9 For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God. The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
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Exodus 21:17
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17 (A)“Whoever curses[a] his father or his mother shall be put to death.
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- Exodus 21:17 Or dishonors; Septuagint reviles
1 Peter 2:17
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17 (A)Honor everyone. (B)Love the brotherhood. (C)Fear God. Honor the emperor.
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Acts 23:3
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3 Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you (A)whitewashed (B)wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet (C)contrary to the law you (D)order me to be struck?”
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John 10:34-35
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34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in (A)your Law, (B)‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be (C)broken—
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Psalm 138:1
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Psalm 32:6
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6 Therefore let everyone who is (A)godly
offer prayer to you at a time when you (B)may be found;
surely in the rush of (C)great waters,
they shall not reach him.
1 Samuel 26:9
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9 But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand (A)against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?”
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1 Samuel 24:10
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10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. (A)And some told me to kill you, but I spared you.[a] I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, (B)for he is the Lord's anointed.’
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- 1 Samuel 24:10 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew it [my eye] spared you
1 Samuel 24:6
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6 He said to his men, (A)“The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is (B)the Lord's anointed.”
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Psalm 82:1-7
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Rescue the Weak and Needy
A Psalm of (A)Asaph.
82 (B)God (C)has taken his place in the divine council;
in the midst of (D)the gods he (E)holds judgment:
2 “How long will you judge unjustly
and (F)show partiality to (G)the wicked? Selah
3 (H)Give justice to (I)the weak and the fatherless;
(J)maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
4 (K)Rescue the weak and the needy;
(L)deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
5 (M)They have neither knowledge nor understanding,
(N)they walk about in darkness;
(O)all the foundations of the earth are (P)shaken.
6 (Q)I said, “You are gods,
sons of the Most High, all of you;
7 nevertheless, like men (R)you shall die,
and fall like any prince.”[a]
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- Psalm 82:7 Or fall as one man, O princes
Leviticus 24:16
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16 Whoever (A)blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
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