The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
ROM 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
ROM 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is
no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
ROM 13:2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the
ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves
damnation.
ROM 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and
thou shalt have praise of the same:
ROM 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do
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