Quotes about Authority
Pay 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.
— Romans 13:7
Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
— Romans 14:4
It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”
— Romans 14:11
by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
— Romans 15:19
so no one can say that you were baptized into my name.
— 1 Corinthians 1:15
so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.
— 1 Corinthians 2:5
The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.
— 1 Corinthians 2:15
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
— 1 Corinthians 4:20
Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?
— 1 Corinthians 4:21
Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
— 1 Corinthians 5:3
hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
— 1 Corinthians 5:5
Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
— 1 Corinthians 6:2