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D&C 134:5 · Articles of Faith 1:12

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 134:5
"We believe that all men are bound to sustain and uphold the respective governments in which they reside, while protected in their inherent and inalienable rights by the laws of such governments"
Pearl of Great Price Articles of Faith 1:12
"We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law."

Offered as a parallel to weigh, not as a settled connection. What is textual: both verses open with the same two words, both state a duty toward civil authority, and both use 'sustain'/'sustaining' of that duty. What is not textual is any claim that one text depends on the other or that they were composed together - the shared run is two words long, far below what this wiki treats as evidence of textual relationship, and the shared topic is one many texts share. 'We believe' stands at forty distinct frozen verses in the corpus, eleven in D&C 134 and twelve in the Articles of Faith.

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