For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same;

For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

“Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

But he answered and said to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?

and began saying to Him, “By what authority are You doing these things, or who gave You this authority to do these things?”

But Jesus was saying, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves.

The Jews then said to Him, “What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?”

“You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.