1 Kings 1:23

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

He said, “Yes.” When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”

Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

“ ‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”

David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.

for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.

Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Let brotherly love continue.

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.

Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day. Then all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.

David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect.

Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.

Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”

But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”

King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king.

The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule.

The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’ ”

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent.”

and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.

“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.

But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.