Quotes About Rulers

Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”

Then the sovereignty, dominion, and greatness of the kingdoms under all of heaven will be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will serve and obey Him.í

You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

The king of the South will grow strong, but one of his commanders will grow even stronger and will rule his own kingdom with great authority.

He will attack the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him, making them rulers over many and distributing the land for a price.

When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.

All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.

Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.

But Jesus called them aside and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.

So Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.

He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.

Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?

“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.í

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.

Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this worldís darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.