Bible verses about "rulers" | Sawyer

¹² for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].

¹⁶ for by him were all things created which are in heaven and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and for him,

⁴ for [the power] is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister of justice for punishment to him that does evil.

¹ Admonish them to be subject to principalities, to powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work, ² to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

^{1 (1:4)} I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings should be offered for all men, ² for kings and all in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives in all piety and sanctity.