• John 19:10-11
  Then Pilate said to Him, "Are You not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have power to crucify You, and power to release You?" Jesus answered, "You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin."
   
• Proverbs 21:1-2
  The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD,
  Like the rivers of water;
  He turns it wherever He wishes.
  Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
  But the LORD weighs the hearts.
  
   
• Daniel 2:20-23
  Daniel answered and said:
  “ Blessed be the name of God forever and ever,
  For wisdom and might are His.
  And He changes the times and the seasons;
  He removes kings and raises up kings;
  He gives wisdom to the wise
  And knowledge to those who have understanding.
  He reveals deep and secret things;
  He knows what is in the darkness,
  And light dwells with Him.
  “ I thank You and praise You,
  O God of my fathers;
  You have given me wisdom and might,
  And have now made known to me what we asked of You,
  For You have made known to us the king’s demand.”
   
• Ezra 1:1-2
  Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying, Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah.
   
• Colossians 1:15-19
  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,
   
• Colossians 2:9-10
  For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
   

Related Scriptures

• Romans 13:6-7
  For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
   
• Luke 10:16
  He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.'
   
• Ecclesiastes 8:4
  Where the word of a king is, there is power;
  And who may say to him, "What are you doing?"
  
   
• Daniel 4:35
  All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;
  He does according to His will in the army of heaven
  And among the inhabitants of the earth.
  No one can restrain His hand
  Or say to Him, “What have You done?”
   
• 1 Corinthians 4:6-7
  Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other. For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
   
• 1 Corinthians 12:4-6
  There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
   
• 1 Timothy 2:1-2
  Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.