SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

For those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. -1 Samuel 2:30, Amplified Bible

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. –Isaiah 5:20

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom… -Proverbs 9:10, KJV

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? -Psalm 11:3, KJV

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. -Proverbs 14:34, KJV

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. -Proverbs 29:2, KJV

…you shall choose able men from all the people --- God-fearing men of truth who hate unjust gain --- and place them over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, to be their rulers. And let them judge the people at all times … -Exodus 18: 21, 22, Amplified Bible

…set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people … all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not. -Ezra 7:25. KJV

…where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Corinthians 3:17, NIV

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint: but blessed is he who keeps the law. -Proverbs 29:18, NIV

My people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge … because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children. -Hosea 4:6 NIV

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. -Revelation 3:16, NIV

By the blessings of the influence of the upright and God’s favor (because of them) the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. –Proverbs 11:11 Amplified Bible