Yes, context is always key. Let's look at a couple of those verses, starting with verse 3. This is from the Christian Standard version.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval. 4 For it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For it is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.
So then, there is a supposition asserted here that these "authorities" are interested in your good, and your wellbeing. They are terrifying to those who do evil, because those will be punished.
Context, context, context causes the mirage to fade into the clear vision of Paul’s very real concern about Judean nonbelievers’ and Gentile believers’ relationship.
Yes, context is always key. Let's look at a couple of those verses, starting with verse 3. This is from the Christian Standard version.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval. 4 For it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For it is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.
So then, there is a supposition asserted here that these "authorities" are interested in your good, and your wellbeing. They are terrifying to those who do evil, because those will be punished.
Sound like the authorities you know?
What do you think of Long known bible scripture changing? " Mandela effect"
I feel like the Lord's Prayer was different when I was a kid. Something sounds off about it now like there is a verse missing
Shall lay with Wolf now , instead of Lion. And lord's prayer has changed as well.