Bible Verses About Police Officers
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for police officers, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 999 votes, led by Romans 13:1-7. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Police Officers
Romans 13:1-7164 votes
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.
Titus 3:1-2116 votes
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
1 Peter 2:13-1771 votes
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
John 15:1351 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Matthew 5:38-3936 votes
Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
Joshua 1:926 votes
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Matthew 5:926 votes
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Judges 5:823 votes
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Genesis 4:1-2622 votes
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
Nehemiah 4:17-1822 votes
They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
Psalms 82:3-422 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Job 15:12-16:1120 votes
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
John 18:1-4020 votes
When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
1 Samuel 25:1318 votes
And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
Psalms 20:718 votes
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
Genesis 9:5-616 votes
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
1 Samuel 8:1116 votes
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Proverbs 24:1-3416 votes
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Isaiah 6:816 votes
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Proverbs 28:1-2814 votes
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Isaiah 43:114 votes
But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Jeremiah 2:3414 votes
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Habakkuk 1:3-414 votes
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
2 Samuel 22:1-23:3912 votes
And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2 Chronicles 17:1-1912 votes
And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.
What does the Bible say about police officers?
Readers most often cite Romans 13:1-7 on the subject of police officers. Across 999 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Titus 3:1-2, 1 Peter 2:13-17, John 15:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.