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Acts 7:30After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.Acts 7:31When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came to him:Acts 7:32‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.Acts 7:33Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.Acts 7:34I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’Acts 7:35This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.Acts 7:36He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.Acts 7:37This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’Acts 7:38He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.Acts 7:39But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.Acts 7:40They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’Acts 7:41At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.Acts 7:42But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Acts 7:43You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’Acts 7:44Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.Acts 7:45And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,Acts 7:46who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.Acts 7:47But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.Acts 7:48However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:Acts 7:49‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?Acts 7:50Has not My hand made all these things?’Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—Acts 7:53you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.Acts 7:55But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.Acts 7:56“Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”Acts 7:57At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.Acts 7:58They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.Acts 7:59While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”Acts 13:22After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’Acts 24:1Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.Acts 24:26At the same time, he was hoping that Paul would offer him a bribe. So he sent for Paul frequently and talked with him.Romans 13:1Everyone 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.Romans 13:2Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.Romans 13:3For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.Romans 13:4For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.Romans 13:5Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.Romans 13:6This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.Romans 13:7Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.Titus 3:1Remind the believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient and ready for every good work,1 Peter 2:13Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,1 Peter 2:14or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.1 Peter 2:15For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.1 Peter 2:16Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.1 Peter 2:17Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
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