6For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
Romans 13:6 —
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Commentary
Matthew Henry
(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 i...
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