"A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The Lord who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply, 'How have we made light of your name?'

But Peter and John replied, "Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice -- alive, holy, and pleasing to God -- which is your reasonable service.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

And they

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

Now when they heard this they were stunned, and they left him and went away.

But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.

General references

Is it right for us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar or not?"

Be subject to every human institution for the Lord's sake, whether to a king as supreme