"A son honors his father and a servant his master. So if I'm a father, where is my honor? And if I'm a master, where is my respect?" says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies to you priests who are despising my name. "But you ask, "How have we despised your name?'

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

Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.

I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.

You know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God, don't you? You do not belong to yourselves,

The love of the Messiah controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.

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He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds.

When they heard this, they were amazed. Then they left him and went away.

But if everyone is prophesying, when an unbeliever or an uneducated person comes in he will be convicted and examined by everything that's happening.

General references

Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

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