Submitting to Authority

4 passages

1. Hebrews 13:17

   Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

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2. Acts 5:29

   But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

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3. Romans 13:1

   Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.

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4. James 4:17

   Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

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