"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'

But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,

Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;

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He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away.

But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,

General references

Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?"

Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,