13Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority,
13Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority,
10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority,
14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.
15 For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.
2:13Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
2:13Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling;
2:13Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
2:13Be in subjection therefore to every human institution for the Lord's sake; whether to the king as supreme,
2:13Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
2:13Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
2:13Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
2:13Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,
2:13Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;