Romans 13:3-4
For [our] rulers are not a threat to [the person doing] a good deed, but to [the person doing] an evil one. So, do you want to avoid having to be afraid of the authorities? Then do what is good and you will be commended by them [generally].
1 Peter 2:14
or to governors who are appointed by him to punish wrongdoers, and to commend those who do right.
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Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
I will lay
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Romans 13:3
For [our] rulers are not a threat to [the person doing] a good deed, but to [the person doing] an evil one. So, do you want to avoid having to be afraid of the authorities? Then do what is good and you will be commended by them [generally].
1 Peter 2:14
or to governors who are appointed by him to punish wrongdoers, and to commend those who do right.