Romans 13:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

Romans 13:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 24:16
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Ecclesiastes 8:2
I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
1 Peter 2:19
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
1 Peter 2:13-15
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; …
Titus 3:1-2
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, …

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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. 5)

5. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath--for fear of the magistrate’s vengeance. but also for conscience’ sake--from reverence for God’s authority. It is of Magistracy in general, considered as a divine ordinance, that this is spoken: and the statement applies equally to all forms of government, from an unchecked despotism--such as flourished when this was written, under the Empe…