'Authority' in the Bible

Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

Let every soul be subject to the authorities that are above him. For there is no authority except from God; and those that exist are set up by God.

So that he that sets himself in opposition to the authority resists the ordinance of God; and they who thus resist shall bring sentence of guilt on themselves.

For rulers are not a terror to a good work, but to an evil one. Dost thou desire then not to be afraid of the authority? practise what is good, and thou shalt have praise from it;