Numbers 16:12
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12 Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come!
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Jude 8
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8 Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and slander the glorious ones.[a](A)
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- 8 Or angels; Gk glories
1 Peter 2:13-14
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13 For the Lord’s sake be subject to every human authority,[a] whether to the emperor as supreme(A) 14 or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.
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- 2.13 Or every authority ordained for humans
Isaiah 3:5
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5 The people will be oppressed,
everyone by another
and everyone by a neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder
and the base to the honorable.(A)
Proverbs 29:9
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9 If the wise go to law with fools,
there is ranting and ridicule without relief.
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