Romans 13:3-4
For judges and magistrates are to be feared not by right-doers but by wrong-doers. You desire--do you not? --to have no reason to fear your ruler. Well, do the thing that is right, and then he will commend you.
1 Peter 2:14
or to provincial Governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and the encouragement of those who do what is 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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I will lay
Romans 13:3
For judges and magistrates are to be feared not by right-doers but by wrong-doers. You desire--do you not? --to have no reason to fear your ruler. Well, do the thing that is right, and then he will commend you.
1 Peter 2:14
or to provincial Governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and the encouragement of those who do what is right.