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Acts 5:29
But Peter and the other apostles answered and said:“ We ought to obey God rather than men.
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Exodus 1:21
And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them.
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Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler pays attention to lies, All his servants become wicked.
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Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men.
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1 Samuel 23 20
Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.”
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Proverbs 29:26
Many seek the ruler’s favor, But justice for man comes from the Lord.
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Daniel 3:18-25
But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.”Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.And he commanded certain mighty men of valor who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and cast them into the burning fiery furnace.Then these men were bound in their coats, their trousers, their turbans, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.Therefore, because the king’s command was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego.And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors,“ Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?” They answered and said to the king,“ True, O king.”“ Look!” he answered,“ I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”
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Leviticus 19:15
‘ You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
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2 Chronicles 24 21
So they conspired against him, and at the command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.
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Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, Because he willingly walked by human precept.
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Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept; All the works of Ahab’s house are done; And you walk in their counsels, That I may make you a desolation, And your inhabitants a hissing. Therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.”
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1 Samuel 22 17
Then the king said to the guards who stood about him,“ Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled and did not tell it to me.” But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to strike the priests of the Lord.
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Exodus 23:1-2
“ You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.
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2 Kings 10 6-2 Kings 10 7
Then he wrote a second letter to them, saying: If you are for me and will obey my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow. Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.So it was, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons and slaughtered seventy persons, put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.
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Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered and said to them,“ Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.
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Exodus 1:17
But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.
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Matthew 2:12
Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way.