You chant this mantra about what governmental law is over and over, but there isn't any support in the Bible for it.
It's a "nice" state of affairs in many ways, but it isn't "required" by God.
And anyhow, if you look up a few posts, I am not even advocating fining gougers. Just squaring it up with the customers and a public confession.
I don't go around quoting Scripture. The devil can do that.
God gave you, me and everyone else free will. He wants me to use it. He wants me to decide whether to walk right.
The only thing that can stop me from doing what He wants is people restricting the actions or decisions I make, by strongarming me. I can't make those decisions for myself if someone isn't leaving me free to live my life - by stealing from me or killing me or threatening to beat me senseless.
That's where government comes in. To protect my God-given rights. That right to liberty means doing anything I please so long as it doesn't intrude on the same rights God gave you and the guy down the street. Old Thomas Jefferson said that.
I also can't make those decisions on whether to walk right if government is forcing me to walk right. Then it ain't my decision. Or if it's forcing me to walk wrong. That's why there's that limit on government.
A man has to be free to make the decisions that will send him to the hot place, or else his decisions to do those things that put him on the right path to God don't mean squat.
I figured that out using the reason God gave me. You're free to disagree, but that's where I'm coming from.