The Conscience Exempt from Civil Rule
Matthew 22:15-22
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.…


When certain persons attempted to persuade Stephen, King of Poland, to constrain some of his subjects, who were of a different religion, to embrace his, he said to them, "I am king of men, and not of consciences. The dominion of conscience belongs exclusively to God."



Parallel Verses
KJV: Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

WEB: Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.




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