Romans 13:1

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”

and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

For many are called, but few chosen.”

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him;

David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;

“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”

Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,

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

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

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

Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of God’s house. Every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service, shall be with you in all kinds of work. Also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.”

Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’ ”

Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.

All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you will have peace.”