Rulers
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Rulers’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 49–72 of 326 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
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Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
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Isaiah 5:22 OT
Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;
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Isaiah 5:23 OT
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
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Isaiah 16:5 OT
A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
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Isaiah 28:6 OT
and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
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Isaiah 60:17 OT
For bronze I will bring gold; for iron I will bring silver; for wood, bronze, and for stones, iron. I will also make peace your governor, and righteousness your ruler.
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Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.
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Romans 12:8 NT
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
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Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand…
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I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:
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for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
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1 Peter 2:13 NT
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
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1 Peter 2:14 NT
or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
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Exodus 18:16 OT
When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
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Exodus 18:20 OT
You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
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Exodus 23:3 OT
You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.
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Exodus 23:6 OT
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
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Exodus 23:7 OT
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
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Exodus 23:9 OT
“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
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“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
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You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
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“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
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who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”