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NASB | Romans 13:1 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God [granted by His permission and sanction], and those which exist have been put in place by God. [Prov 8:15] |
Bible Question:
Is there suppossed to be a difference between how to understand this verse as oppossed to how to understand I Peter 2:13, 14? I have heard different takes on this and am wondering what anyone here thinks. Thanks. |
Bible Answer: Hi brothersmith 1 Peter 2:12-16 12.) Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. 13.) Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14.) Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15.) For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16.) As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. You are not to be disturbers of the peace; you Christian people are to cultivate the spirit of conciliation wherever you dwell, submitting yourselves, “for the Lord’s sake,” even to come things which you do not like. We are to obey kings, and governors, and magistrates, even when they may not be all that we wish them to be: “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake:” — True Christians give no trouble in the State they are not law-breakers, but they strive to do that which is honest and upright. Where the laws are not righteous, they may cause trouble to bad law-givers and lawmakers; but when rulers ordain that which is just and righteous, they find that Christians are their best subjects. In Peter’s day, the king was a poor creature, and something worse than that. Indeed, I might say of the bulk of the Emperors of Rome, who were the chief “kings” of that day, that they were monsters of iniquity; yet the office was to be respected even when the man who occupied it could not be much more should it be respected when the occupant is what a true “king” should be. Ignorance, you see, is a noisy thing. An empty drum makes a loud noise when it is beaten; and empty men, like empty vessels, often make the most sound. How then are we to silence this noisy ignorance? By argument? No, for it is not amenable to argument. Ignorance is to be silenced “by well doing.” Holy living is the best reply to infidel talking. Free in yourselves, free in your conscience, free in your mind and heart. .....C.H.Spurgeon Vintage68 |