Whoever opposes. This is a strong statement! We must obey the civil laws just as we must obey God's laws. Of course, this does not mean we are to obey wicked rulers when they order us to disobey God (compare Acts 4:19).
Verse Romans 13:2. _WHOSOEVER RESISTETH THE POWER_] ο αντιτασσομενος, He who sets himself in _order_ against this _order_ of God; τη του θεου διαταγη, and _they who resist_, οι ανθεστηκοτες, they who...
WHOSOEVER THEREFORE RESISTETH ... - That is, they who rise up against “government itself;” who seek anarchy and confusion; and who oppose the regular execution of the laws. It is implied, however, tha...
CHAPTER 13 _ 1. Obedience to Authorities. (Romans 13:1 .)_ 2. Love the Fulfilling of the Law. (Romans 13:8 .) 3. The Day is at Hand. (Romans 13:11 .)...
ORDER AND LOYALTY. On the turbulence of Roman Jews, see Introd. § 3. Romans 13:1 f. Let every soul be subordinate to superior authorities, a general maxim, with two reasons given: that authority is of...
Let everyone render due obedience to those who occupy positions of outstanding authority, for there is no authority which is not allotted its place by God, for the authorities which exist have been se...
THE CHRISTIAN AND THE STATE (Romans 13:1-7)...
RESISTETH. Greek. _antitassomai_. See Acts 18:6. RESISTETH, RESIST. withstand. Greek. _anthistemi._ See Romans 9:19. ORDINANCE. See Acts 7:53. DAMNATION. App-177....
The passage does not touch on the question of _forms_of government. "The powers that be" is a phrase which, on the whole, accepts authority _de facto_, irrespective of its theory, or of its circumstan...
ἘΑΥΤΟΙ͂Σ. Emphatic: will bring judgment upon themselves. ΚΡΊΜΑ ΛΉΜΨΟΝΤΑΙ. Of the civil judgment involved by their acts; cf. Luke 23:40; Luke 24:20....
F. 12–15:13. THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL SEEN IN ITS EFFECT UPON BOTH THE COMMON AND THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE OF CHRISTIANS. In this section S. Paul deals with the consequences of the principles he has worked...
Romans 13:1-10. The true relation to the civil power and the outside world....
1–7. Relation to civil authorities. There is no introduction or formula of connexion. This is still part of the new σωφροσύνη. It is to be observed that the reasons for civil obedience are fully and c...
ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) следовательно. Вводит логический вывод (SH). ΆΝΤΙΤΑΣΣΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΑΝΤΙΤΆΣΣΩ (G498) настраиваться против, противостоять, с _dat._ Part, в роли _subst._ ΔΙΑΤΑΓΉ (G...
DISCOURSE: 1911 DUTY TO CIVIL GOVERNORS Romans 13:1. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore res...
RESISTETH THE POWER— The word ο αντιτασσομενος, in the most direct import of it, signifies "one who sets himself as it were in array against," and may possibly allude to the word τεταγμεναι, _ranged_...
_TEXT_ Romans 13:1-7. Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. Romans 13:2 Therefore he that resisteth the po...
Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. WHOSOEVER THEREFORE RESISTETH THE POWER - `So that he who sette...
__ The Conduct of the Saints 14 The conduct of the saints in any given economy is based on God's dispensation. If He dispenses law, He requires conduct in accord with law. Mercy calls for a higher s...
13:2 bring (i-23) Lit. 'shall receive.'...
PARAPHRASE. '(1) Obey civil rulers, for they are divinely ordained, (2) and therefore God will punish disobedience. (3, 4) They do God's work, rewarding the good and punishing the evil. (5) Therefore...
DAMNATION] RV 'judgment.'...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 13 A CHRISTIAN’S DUTY TO THE STATE 13:1-7 V1 Everyone ought to obey their rulers. No government has authority unless G...
XIII. (1-7) SUBJECT UNTO THE HIGHER POWERS. — Looking impartially at the passage which follows, it would seem at first sight — and perhaps not only at first sight — that the Apostle distinctly preach...
DAMNATION. — _Condemnation_ — _i.e.,_ the sentence passed upon him by the judge or magistrate as God’s representative....
CHAPTER 27 CHRISTIAN DUTY; IN CIVIL LIFE AND OTHERWISE: Romans 13:1 A NEW topic now emerges, distinct, yet in close and natural connection. We have been listening to precepts for personal and social...
ὥστε _cf._ Romans 7:4; Romans 7:12. The conclusion is that he who sets himself against the authorities withstands what has been instituted by God: διαταγῇ (Acts 7:53) recalls τεταγμέναι,...
RENDERING “TO ALL THEIR DUES” Romans 13:1 Human government, like the existence of the family relationship, is a divine institution. It is part of the order of the world and rooted in the original con...
The apostle now showed what attitude the believer will take toward the world. The first thing dealt with is submission to authority. These powers are of God. The believer's submission to the will of G...
“ _Whosoever, therefore, rebelleth against the power, resisteth the ordinance of God; now, they that resist shall receive to themselves a judgment._ ” This verse exhibits the guilt, and, as a conseque...
TWENTY-SIXTH PASSAGE (13:1-10). THE LIFE OF THE BELIEVER AS A MEMBER OF THE STATE. Meyer and many others find no connection whatever between the subject treated in this chapter and that of the foregoi...
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. (2) Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God:...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
2._And they who resist, etc. _As no one can resist God but to his own ruin, he threatens, that they shall not be unpunished who in this respect oppose the providence of God. Let us then beware, lest w...
Among themselves Christians are exhorted not to seek the high things of this world, but to walk as brethren with those of low degree: a precept too much forgotten in the assembly of God to her loss. I...
WHOSOEVER THEREFORE RESISTETH THE POWER,.... The office of magistracy, and such as are lawfully placed in it, and rightly exercise it; who denies that there is, or ought to be any such order among men...
Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. Ver. 2. _Resisteth the power_] His authoritative commands, not his...
_Whosoever therefore resisteth the power_ Or the authority, of which the magistrate is possessed; _resisteth the ordinance of God_ God's appointment for the preservation of order and of the public pea...
RESISTETH THE POWER; the civil government, in the exercise of its rightful authority. DAMNATION; condemnation, punishment. As civil government is an institution of God, it should be respected, and it...
WHOSOEVER, THEREFORE, RESISTS THE POWER RESISTS THE ORDINANCE OF GOD; AND THEY THAT RESIST SHALL RECEIVE TO THEMSELVES DAMNATION....
OF OBEDIENCE TO THE GOVERNMENT, LOVE TOWARD ONE'S NEIGHBOR, AND THE WALK IN THE LIGHT. Government powers of God:...
SUBJECTION TO PROPER AUTHORITY This chapter is as clear as can be in its teaching: nothing but a spirit of rebellion could find difficulty with it - except possibly in the matter of how far this subje...
Every soul = all people, every person Subject = submit to, obey their directions, orders All power is from God - Hitler, Saddam Hussein, etc. are from God. We may not understand their purpose; "Why...
THEREFORE HE THAT RESISTETH THE POWER, WITHSTANDETH THE ORDINANCE OF GOD: AND THEY THAT WITHSTAND SHALL RECEIVE TO THEMSELVES JUDGMENT. 'Therefore' -seeing that the civil authorities are the arrange...
1-7 The grace of the gospel teaches us submission and quiet, where pride and the carnal mind only see causes for murmuring and discontent. Whatever the persons in authority over us themselves may be,...
WHOSOEVER THEREFORE RESISTETH THE POWER, RESISTETH THE ORDINANCE OF GOD: these words are, either an argument to enforce the subjection enjoined in the former part of the foregoing verse; q. d. You may...
Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God [This is the enunciation of the general principle without any accompanying exceptions. Pressed to its limits, this precept woul...
The Second Epistle of Pope Fabian For his other actings, however, he is rather to be borne with by his flock and those put under him, than accused or made the subject of public detraction; because wh...
Romans 13:2 whoever G5620 resists G498 (G5734) authority G1849 resists G436 (G5758) ordinance G1296 God G2316 and...
‘Therefore he who resists the power, withstands the ordinance of God, and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.' The consequence of what has been said in Romans 13:1 is that to resi...
THE CHRISTIAN'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE STATE (13:1-7). Having called on Christians ‘not to be conformed to this world' (Romans 12:2), and having indicated that vengeance for wrongdoing lay in God's hand...
Romans 13:2. SO THAT (as a result of the principle just stated) HE WHO RESISTETH (or, ‘setteth himself against') THE AUTHORITY, that particular existing authority, to which he should submit himself. ...
3. _The Christian's Duty to Rulers_. This exhortation has seemed to many out of place, since in Romans 13:8 the precepts resume their general character, and the connection with what precedes is not ob...
HE THAT RESISTETH (ο αντιτασσομενος). Present middle articular participle of αντιτασσω, old verb to range in battle against as in Acts 18:6, "he that lines himself up against."WITHSTANDETH (ανθεσ...
DAMNATION Condemnation, that is, in the sense of judgment by the magistrate....
CONTENTS: Believer's attitude toward civil government. Law of love toward neighbors. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul. CONCLUSION: Obedience to civil magistrates is one of the laws of Christ whose relig...
Romans 13:1. _Let every soul be subject to the higher powers,_ of magistrates, governors, proconsuls, kings, and emperors. The christian finds them in power; they allow us to lock our doors at night,...
_Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers._ For there is no power but of God. LET EVERY SOUL BE SUBJECT UNTO THE HIGHER POWERS I. Every soul, or man (Exodus 12:4; Genesis 46:27). 1. Secula...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 13:1 Christians are to BE SUBJECT TO (which generally means to obey, see 1 Peter 3:5) the government because it has been put in place by God. Severa
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 13:1.—Let every one submit to the authorities that are over him. A precept made remarkable by the time in which it was written. πᾶσα ψυχή, every soul; every office-bearer as we...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 13:1 From admonitions to keep peace, if possible, with all men, whether or not within the Christian circle, and to act honourably and benevolently towards all, the apostle now passe...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Romans 13. As Christians, what should be our attitude towards government? Paul declares, Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of...
1 Peter 2:13; Isaiah 58:2; James 3:1; Jeremiah 23:8; Jeremiah 44:14;
He that resisteth [ο α ν τ ι τ α σ σ ο μ ε ν ο ς]. Lit., setteth himself in array against. See on 1 Peter 5:5; Acts 18:6. Resisteth [α ν θ ε σ τ η κ ε ν]. Rev., better, withstandeth. See on ch. Romans...
Whosoever resisteth the power — In any other manner than the laws of the community direct. Shall receive condemnation — Not only from the magistrate, but from God also....
The forementioned duty of subjection unto magistracy, insisted upon in the foregoing verse, the apostle urges and enforces upon all Christians, by sundry arguments in this and the foregoing verses; as...