For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

kings.

Ezra 6:10 And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his children.

Nehemiah 1:11 I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy name: and direct thy servant this day, and give him mercy before this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

Psalm 20:1-4 Unto the end. A psalm for David. [2] May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee. . . .

Psalm 72:1 A psalm on Solomon.

Jeremiah 29:7 And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you to be carried away captives; and pray to the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall be your peace.

for all.

Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject to higher powers. For there is no power but from God: and those that are ordained of God.

*etc:

1 Peter 2:13 Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling,

authority.

Genesis 49:14,15 Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders. . . .

2 Samuel 20:19 Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord?

Proverbs 24:21 My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with detractors.

Ecclesiastes 3:12,13 And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life. . . .

Ecclesiastes 8:2-5 I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath of God. . . .

Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men.

1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's.

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

all godliness.

Luke 1:6 And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.

Luke 2:25 And behold there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon: and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was in him.

Acts 10:22 Who said: Cornelius, a centurion, a just man and one that feareth God, and having good testimony from all the nation of the Jews, received an answer of an holy angel, to send for thee into his house And to hear words of thee.

Acts 24:16 And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without offence, towards God and towards men.

Philippians 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

Titus 2:10-14 Not defrauding, but in all things shewing good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. . . .

1 Peter 2:9-13 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: . . .

2 Peter 1:3-7 As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness are given us through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue. . . .