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Romans 13:7
Pay your obligations to everyone: taxes to those you owe taxes, tolls to those you owe tolls, respect to those you owe respect, and honor to those you owe honor.
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Malachi 1:6-8
“ A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me? says the LORD of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.” Yet you ask,“ How have we despised your name?”“ By presenting defiled food on my altar.”“ How have we defiled you?” you ask. When you say,“ The LORD’s table is contemptible.”“ When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong? Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Armies.
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Matthew 22:37
He said to him,“ Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
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Acts 4:19
Peter and John answered them,“ Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;
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Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear the LORD, as well as the king, and don’t associate with rebels,
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Daniel 6:20-23
When he reached the den, he cried out in anguish to Daniel.“ Daniel, servant of the living God,” the king said,“ has your God, whom you continually serve, been able to rescue you from the lions?”Then Daniel spoke with the king:“ May the king live forever.My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths; and they haven’t harmed me, for I was found innocent before him. And also before you, Your Majesty, I have not done harm.”The king was overjoyed and gave orders to take Daniel out of the den. When Daniel was brought up from the den, he was found to be unharmed, for he trusted in his God.
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Luke 23:2
They began to accuse him, saying,“ We found this man misleading our nation, opposing payment of taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”
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Daniel 3:16-18
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king,“ Nebuchadnezzar, we don’t need to give you an answer to this question.If the God we serve exists, then he can rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he can rescue us from the power of you, the king.But even if he does not rescue us, we want you as king to know that we will not serve your gods or worship the gold statue you set up.”
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Malachi 3:8-10
“ Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me!”“ How do we rob you?” you ask.“ By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.You are suffering under a curse, yet you— the whole nation— are still robbing me.Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way,” says the LORD of Armies.“ See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure.
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Matthew 17:25-27
“ Yes,” he said. When he went into the house, Jesus spoke to him first,“ What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tariffs or taxes? From their sons or from strangers?”“ From strangers,” he said.“ Then the sons are free,” Jesus told him.“ But, so we won’t offend them, go to the sea, cast in a fishhook, and take the first fish that you catch. When you open its mouth you’ll find a coin. Take it and give it to them for me and you.”
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Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus told him,“ Go away, Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.”
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Daniel 6:10-11
When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house. The windows in its upstairs room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God.
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1 Peter 2 13-1 Peter 2 17
Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the emperor as the supreme authorityor to governors as those sent out by him to punish those who do what is evil and to praise those who do what is good.For it is God’s will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.Submit as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but as God’s slaves.Honor everyone. Love the brothers and sisters. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
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Acts 5:29
Peter and the apostles replied,“ We must obey God rather than people.