Allegiance | Week 2 | Government is God’s institution for justice

⁴ For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Romans 13:4 (NIV)

¹³ Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, ¹⁴ or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.1 Peter 2:13–14 (NIV)

Bear the sword

Agents of wrath

Punish those who do wrong

Commend those who do right

¹¹ When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong. Ecclesiastes 8:11 (NIV)

Government is an institution of justice

Church is an institution of grace and mercy