Bible Dictionary: Obedience to God: Includes: Submission to Higher Powers

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

God's Restraining Power.
... of the Spirit, wished to break away from obedience to His ... it was through law and
order that God, in His ... else, but love, that produces and includes both, has no ...
/.../selected sermons of schleiermacher/xii gods restraining power.htm

The Mistakes of Christ's Foes and Friends
... It is active submission to God's will, not orthodox creed ... By such obedience, we draw
His love more and ... That relationship includes and surpasses all earthly ones ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/the mistakes of christs foes.htm

Sanctification.
... And as the whole includes all its parts, there must be ... same absurdity as to say,
that perfect obedience to the ... be wholly conformed to the will of God in this ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxxvii sanctification.htm

Covenant Duties.
... It includes that the duties owing to all in ... by contemning alike the law of God and
the ... rulers possessed of scriptural qualifications, cordial obedience is due. ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter iv covenant duties.htm

Of Civil Government.
... For, under the term honour, the former includes a sincere ... to God himself, inasmuch
as their power is from God. ... must with ready minds prove our obedience to them ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 20 of civil government.htm

Covenanting a Duty.
... the idolater, of whatever class; includes that, instead ... a compact even on terms of
submission to the ... public character they owe to God obedience, which cannot ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter iii covenanting a duty.htm

Book ix. In the Last Book we Treated of the Indistinguishable ...
... The obedience of death has nothing to do with the form of God ... Father; but, proclaiming
by the word "Father" His relationship to God, He includes Himself in ...
/.../hilary/the life and writings of st hilary of poitiers/book ix in the last.htm

The Greater Prophets.
... In the second part of Isaiah, which includes the last twenty-seven ... his countrymen;
as in chap.24:18, where Ezekiel, in obedience to God's command, refrains ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxii the greater prophets.htm

The First Epistle of St. Peter
... This grace includes the thought of God's goodness in admitting pagan ... The honour is
done by obedience. To reverence God is the duty of His servants, and it is ...
/.../moffat/the general epistles james peter and judas/the first epistle of st.htm

The Epistle of St. James
... to prosecution of Christians on the ground of their religion (as in 1 Peter 2:12),
but it includes more. ... For James the exercise of obedience to God or of ...
/.../moffat/the general epistles james peter and judas/the epistle of st james.htm