Colossians 3:5-6 So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world. Because of these sins, the anger of God is coming.
Nothing there about a general authority of government to punish sin.
Speaking of Scripture verses - here's what the person with truly "profound Christianity" says about themselves:
I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? (Romans 7:23-24)
You just don’t know Natural Law Theory. That’s all. You can’t understand the philosophy that developed all the concepts of free will, freedom, private property rights, individualism, virtue, and true natural rights only come from God. And of course, it is ONLY the Christian God—the dominate religion for over 1000 years in Western Civilization that formed the ideas of Common Law and Magna Carta and the Lockean theory which created Rule of Law and the US Constitution and Justice System.
Philosphy backs ALL those ideas-—and it is a collection that spans over 2400 years and it takes years to understand after classes and study and intense reading. I’ve gone back to school and taken college courses on Natural Law Theory from a Jesuit, no less (LOL).
Read Chesterton sometime...another brilliant mind who could spot the evil George Bernard Shaw and the flaws in his “thinking” when the World glorified him.
“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.” (the genius GK Chesterton)