The Apostle Paul calls every person to submit to God's institution of civil government, just as he calls everyone to submit to the authority instituted by the Family and exercised through parents (Eph. 6:1-3) and to the institutional authority of the Church through elders (Hebrews 13:17). Likewise, we must be subject to God's laws and norms for the State… by placing all government specifically under God, Paul shows that civil government was not left to human arbitrariness, ambition, pride, and violence, but was ordained by God with prescribed limitations, functions, and duties.
