Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 13:1-6
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 itself, in which they are. However the persons themselves may be wicked, and of those vile persons... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 13
There are three good lessons taught us in this chapter, where the apostle enlarges more upon his precepts than he had done in the foregoing chapter, finding them more needful to be fully pressed. I. A lesson of subjection to lawful authority, Rom. 13:1-6. II. A lesson of justice and love to our brethren, Rom. 13:7-10. III. A lesson of sobriety and godliness in ourselves, Rom. 13:11-14. read more