Does the Bible really preach to obey the laws of government ... shared a screenshot of Romans 13:1-7 on Twitter Thursday (June 14) saying Sanders was “right” to say enforcing laws is biblical ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday used a Bible verse to defend his ... food stamps requirements. But the verse that Sessions cited, Romans 13, is an unusual choice.

But the Bible is a text less often read than read into. As many of his “church friends” persist in pointing out, Sessions did not cite the verse later in Romans 13 where Paul writes that God ...

A complete reading and understanding of Romans ... Version). We write as biblical scholars and as Christians to argue that Sessions has misused this passage from Romans. First, the Bible shouldn ...

Romans 13 has been used to justify everything from slavery to regulations in Nazi Germany. So again we see the danger of taking a Bible verse out of context and using it as a kind of weapon to ...