Exodus 22:28

You shall not blaspheme God nor curse a ruler of your people. Reverence for God and respect for lawful authority are commanded together.

Cross-references · 18

• Eccl 10:20Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.
• Acts 23:5Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”
• Jude 1:8Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
• Exod 21:17“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
• Exod 22:8–9If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn’t put his hand to his neighbor’s goods.
• Ps 32:6For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
• 2 Pet 2:10but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
• 1 Sam 24:6He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”
• Ps 138:1By David. I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.
• 1 Sam 24:10Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.
• Rom 13:2–7Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
• Titus 3:1–2Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
• 1 Sam 26:9David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
• Ps 82:1–7A Psalm by Asaph. God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
• 1 Pet 2:17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
• John 10:34–35Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’
• Acts 23:3Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”
• Lev 24:16He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

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