Bible Verses About Politics

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

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

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

If a ruler hearken to lies , all his servants are wicked.

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.