First: How To Submit To Civil Authority:*

Rom 13:1: Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.

Rom 13:2: Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

Rom 13:3: For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.

Rom 13:4: For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.

Rom 13:5: Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake.

Rom 13:6: For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing.

Rom 13:7: Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

Rom 13:8: Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Rom 13:9: For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,”fn “You shall not covet,”fn and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”fn

Rom 13:10: Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Rom 13:11: And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

Rom 13:12: The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Rom 13:13: Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.

Rom 13:14: But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

Second: When Not To Submit to Civil Authorities:*

Acts 4:1: “Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,
(2) being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.”
(3) And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.
(4)However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
(5)And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes,
(6)as well as Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.”
(7)And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, “By what power or by what name have you done this?”
(8)Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:
(9)”If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,
(10)”let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.
(11)”This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’
(12)”Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
(13) Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.
(14)And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
(15)But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
(16)saying, “What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.”(17)”But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.”
(18)So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
(19)But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.
(20)For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.”
(21)So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way of punishing them, because of the people, since they all glorified God for what had been done.
(22)For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
(23)And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
(24)So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them,(25)”who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: ‘Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things?
(26)”The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together Against the LORD and against His Christ.
(27)”For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
(28)”to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.
(29)”Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word,
(30)”by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
(31)And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

* Quoted from New King James Version.