Romans 13:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 13

²Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

Romans 13:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:13
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
Titus 3:1
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Romans 13:5
Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
James 3:1
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Luke 20:47
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

We are here taught how to conduct ourselves towards magistrates, and those that are in authority over us, called here the higher powers, intimating their authority (they are powers), and their dignity (they are higher powers), including not only the king as supreme, but all inferior magistrates under him: and yet it is expressed, not by the persons that are in that power, but the place of power it…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Ro 13:1-14. Same Subject Continued--Political and Social Relations--Motives. 1-2. Let every soul--every man of you be subject unto the higher powers--or, “submit himself to the authorities that are above him.” For there is no power--“no authority” but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God--“have been ordained of God.”