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Romans 13 has been a controversial passage in the Bible for quite some time now, and there's still debate over what exactly it means. According to theologian Diana Butler Bass, though, Paul most ...
The first three verses of Romans 13 in the Common English Bible, traditionally used by the United Methodist Church, read: 1 Every person should place themselves under the authority of the government.
In both cases, Romans 13 has been used to justify the position that Christians are required to submit to government authority, regardless of their own moral positions.
The passage has been seen as an unequivocal order for Christians to obey authority, has been used to justify Southern slavery, authoritarian rule in Nazi Germany and South African apartheid.