'Authorities' in the Bible

Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.

Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authorities know He is the Messiah?

When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

Everyone must submit to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are instituted by God.

And for this reason you pay taxes, since the authorities are God’s public servants, continually attending to these tasks.

This is so God’s multi-faceted wisdom may now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavens.

For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

For everything was created by Him,in heaven and on earth,the visible and the invisible,whether thrones or dominionsor rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; He triumphed over them by Him.

Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work,

Now that He has gone into heaven, He is at God’s right hand with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.