# Today is Tuesday, 2024.12.17 ## On what basis would you choose to obey God rather than man? ### Passage Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire. This was the first census to take place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And everyone went to his own town to register. {Luke 2.1-3 (BSB)} But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men. {Acts 5.29 (BSB)} ![[241217.Census.jpg]] --- ##### IMAGE: The Decree, courtesy of Grok! ###### The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible (https://bereanbible.com), BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub (https://biblehub.com), Discovery Bible (https://discoverybible.com), OpenBible.com (https://openbible.com), and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. This text of God's Word has been dedicated to the public domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0).