28 Bible Verses about Rulers

But Jesus called them to him, and said, You know that the rulers of the gentiles exercise lordship over them, and the great exercise authority over them; but it shall not be so among you.

And Jesus called them and said to them, You know that those who desire to rule the gentiles exercise lordship over them, and their great men exercise authority over them;

he has brought down the mighty from thrones, and exalted the humble;

And when they bring you to the synagogues, and powers, and authorities, be not anxious how you shall defend yourselves, or what you shall say;

But he that injured his neighbor repelled him, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed; but we speak a wisdom of God hid in mystery, which God appointed from eternity for our glory, which none of the rulers of this life knew, for if they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Will you not fear the power? Do good, and you shall have praise from it;

Admonish them to be subject to principalities, to powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work,

and delivered him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and [he] made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

And you Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the governors of Judah, for out of you shall come a governor who shall rule my people Israel.

And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

And on the next day the rulers, and elders, and scribes

And Pilate having called the chief priests, and rulers, and the people,

and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to the sentence of death, and crucified him,

Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

Then Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel,

For those living at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him and the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning [him];

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his blood,

And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God,

which the blessed and only Potentate will show in its times, the King of kings and Lord of Lords,

Let every soul be subject to the superior powers. For there is no power except from God, and the [powers] which exist have been ordained by God. So that he who resists the power resists the ordinance of God; and those who resist shall receive judgment on themselves.