Bible Verses About Civic Responsibility

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Cesar the things which be Cesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the Lord do that which is good in his sight.

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

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.

And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

They say unto him, Cesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

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

And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Cesar the things that are Cesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him.

And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.