57 Bible Verses about Authority

For the Lord's sake submit yourselves to every human authority: whether to the king as supreme,

It is God who alters the times and seasons, and he removes kings and promotes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

By me leaders rule, as do noble officials and all who govern justly.

I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my fury."

You, your majesty, king of kings to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory,

This order is announced by the observers, and the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over human kingdoms and grants them to whomever he desires, and he places the least important of men over them.'

You'll be driven from people, and you'll live among wild animals of the field. You'll eat grass like cattle and be soaked with the dew of the sky while seven years pass you by until you realize that the Most High is sovereign over human kingdoms and grants them to whomever he desires.

"The kingdom has been taken from you! You're to be driven away from people. You're to live with the wild animals of the field. You are to be made to eat grass like cattle, and seven years will pass you by until you realize that the Most High is sovereign over human kingdoms and grants them to whomever he desires.'"

He was driven away from human society and given the mind of an animal. He lived with wild donkeys, ate grass like cattle, and his body was soaked with dew from the sky until he realized that the Most High God is sovereign over human kingdoms and places over them whomever he desires.

Jesus answered him, "You have no authority over me at all, except what was given to you from above. That's why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."

Every person must be subject to the governing authorities, for no authority exists except by God's permission. The existing authorities have been established by God,

Your majesty, the Most High God gave your grandfather Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty, as well as greatness, glory, and splendor.

Kings reign by me, and rulers dispense justice through me.

Don't be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them.

Jesus called his disciples and told them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers among the unbelievers lord it over them, and their superiors act like tyrants over them.

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

A wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but his wife does.

Kings detest wrongdoing, for through righteousness the throne is established.

Purge the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Gracious love and truth preserve a king; through love his throne is made secure.

Don't be in a hurry to leave him, and don't persist in evil, for he does whatever he pleases.

Since a king's command is powerful, who is able to challenge him, asking, "What are you doing?"

He is not to exalt himself over his relatives, nor turn aside from the commandment neither to the right nor to the left so that he and his sons may reign long in Israel."

The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has talked to me. "When one is governing men justly, he fears God while governing.

When a king faithfully administers justice to the poor, his throne will be established forever.