Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
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Gill's Exposition
Or unto governors,.... Inferior magistrates, such as were under the Roman emperor; as proconsuls, procurators, &c. such as Pontius Pilate, Felix, and Festus, who had under the emperor the government…
Barnes' Notes
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man - Greek, “to every creation of man,” (ἀνθρωπίνῃ κτίσει anthrōpinē ktisei The meaning is, to every institution or appointment of man; to wit, of those…
Adam Clarke
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man - In every settled state, and under every form of political government, where the laws are not in opposition to the laws of God, it may be very soundly and…
The general rule of a Christian conversation is this, it must be honest, which it cannot be if there be not a conscientious discharge of all relative duties. The apostle here particularly treats of…
Cambridge Bible
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man The precept, like those of Rom 13:1-7, points to this as the line of action which the circumstances of the time made most important, in order that the…
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