6 Bible Verses about defiance

Therefore, the person who resists [these] authorities is opposing what God has ordained. And those who oppose [these authorities] will bring judgment on themselves.

Submit yourselves to every authority set up by people for the Lord's sake. [Submit to] a king as the [highest] authority,

But Peter and John replied, "You decide whether it is right before God to listen to you men or to Him;

But Peter and the apostles answered them, "We must obey God instead of [you] men [in this situation].

Jason has welcomed them and [now] all of them [i.e., Paul, Silas, Jason and the others] are going against the [Roman] laws of Caesar by saying that someone else is [our] king; that Jesus is [king]!"

Then I saw thrones, with individuals sitting on them who had been given [authority] to judge. And I [also] saw the souls of those who had been decapitated because they had testified about Jesus and [had proclaimed] the message of God. [They are] the ones who had refused to worship the beast or his statue, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And these ones lived again and ruled with Christ for a thousand years.