Living in alignment is obedience. God through the new and Old Testament is portrayed as Lord/King. He’s the only just and truly loving king, the only one worth fully obeying.

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You are repeating rhetoric from the church, not practical virtues. All those amount to is “stop listening to your conscience and do what you are told by your ruler.” That, imo, is not at all how to live in alignment with God. It certainly wasn’t the example that Jesus provided.