But in another letter Paul exhorts us “that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence” (1 Timothy 2:1–2; see 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12; Titus 3:1–2). Civil obedience was also an Old Testament principle. Even while the Jews were held as captives in the pagan country of Babylon, God through the prophet Jeremiah commanded them, “Seek the peace of the