.Bible Class Questions

         
    QUESTIONS OVER ROMANS CHAPTER 13:
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    1. What is "every soul" commanded to be "subject unto" in this chapter?
    2. What would be an exception to this rule in the light of other Scripture?
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    3. What do you think has been ordained of God? (1) Each specific government that is in power; (2) The principle that we should have government.
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    4. In this context, who is called "the minister [diakonos] of God" (and in what way)?
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    5. What two reasons does Paul give as to why we should be subject to the governmental powers?
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    6. Besides being in subjection, and not resisting the powers, what else does he say that we are to do?
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    7. What did Jesus personally say that bears directly upon this subject?
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    8. In the light of the context, what does "owe" mean when it says to "owe no man anything"?
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    9. What do we owe "one another" that Paul says is the fulfilling of the law?
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    10. According to Paul, why is love the fulfilling of the law?
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    11. What did Paul say as to why "it is high time to awake out of sleep"?
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    12. When does a Christian have salvation in the light of all of the Scriptures?
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    13. Paul speaks of the "works of darkness"—what did John say as to why men love darkness rather than light?
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    14. To what does Paul connect/associate walking honestly or decently?
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    15. "Rioting" is elsewhere translated by what word?
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    16. What did Peter say as to why the pagan Gentile world thought Christians were strange, speaking evil of them?
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    17. What is involved in the words "chambering" and "wantoness"?
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    18. What two other wrongs does he put the word "not" before?
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    19. "But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and ____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ."
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    20. What does he mean by "provision" in this verse?
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    NAME: _________________________ DATE: ________________

    ANSWERS:  1. Romans 13:1;  2. When what the government says is contrary to what God says, Acts 5:26-29; 3. (2) The principle that we should have government (although in the process of revelation God was involved with the nation of Israel and sometimes other nations); 4. Romans 13:4;  5. Romans 13:5;  6. Romans 13:6,7; 7. Matthew 22:21;  8. We owe when our obligations are not met, they are past due;  9. Romans 13:8; 10. Romans 13:9,10; 11. Romans 13:11,12; 12. There are Scriptures that say we have salvation now, Scriptures that say we are in the process of receiving it, and Scriptures that say that it will be received in the end (each making emphaisis of what the writer had in mind at the time); 13. John 3:19-21; 14. Romans 13:13; 15. Revelling; 16. 1 Peter 4:3,4; 17. Sexual matters, unrestrained; 18. Romans 13:13; 19. Romans 13:14; 20. To plan in advance. 
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