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I think people obey civil laws for various reasons. You have stated some in your post. I know many people who are not Christians who obey civil laws or behave decently and they comment that it is just the right thing to do. I think that this reflects that knowledge of right and wrong has been written in our consciences by God whether we are believers or not. Some people have an inborn personality tendency that bends toward challenging rules and authority and others have an inborn personality tendency to be compliant. I've worked around very young children and infants all of my adult life and have observed these differences in children even in infancy/toddlerhood. My three sons were of the compliant group and parenting them was very easy. But I have a few nieces who were so challenging even from infancy. Upbringing does have some influence on these personality tendencies, it seems.
I have known many non believers who are very kind, giving, courteous, and morally upright in the way they live their lives. I have also known some who were believers from a young age brought up in a believing home who went on to be rebellious, law breaking, risk taking, and contrary in their teen and young adult years. So, perhaps it is best not to stereotype people's behaviors by their spiritual state.
God, by His unsearchable wisdom, created each of us individually and placed in our natural personalities certain traits and tendencies. He alone knows the plans He has for each person and He alone brings things to fruition in each of us according to His purpose and will.
For us who know the Lord, we should care to be godly in our lives both in private and publicly. It is always good for us to do so. Our godly life can attract some who are are pleased with how we live our lives, knowing they can trust us to do what is right around them; and it will repel others who feel convicted by our lifestyle or prefer to hang with those who disobey
Are you asking about being protected from others telling false information about you?
Hopefully this gives you the insight you're looking for.
Thank you for the uplifting post.
Hopefully this is helpful
James 1:27
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."
King James Version (KJV)
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
King James Version (KJV)
14Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Isn't Jesus our only hope?
King James Version (KJV)
"This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;"