Daniel 4:27

4:27 Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps your prosperity will be prolonged.”¹

Daniel 6:4-5

6:4 Consequently the supervisors and satraps were trying to find² some pretext against Daniel in connection with administrative matters.³ But they were unable to find any such damaging evidence,⁴ because he was trustworthy and guilty of no negligence or corruption.⁵ 6:5 So these men concluded,⁶ “We won’t find any pretext against this man Daniel unless it is⁷ in connection with the law of his God.”

Romans 13:1

Submission to Civil Government

13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God’s appointment,⁸ and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

Romans 13:5

13:5 Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath of the authorities⁹ but also because of your conscience.¹⁰

Romans 13:1

Submission to Civil Government

13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God’s appointment,¹¹ and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

Romans 2:13-17

2:13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.¹² 2:14 For whenever the Gentiles,¹³ who do not have the law, do by nature¹⁴ the things required by the law,¹⁵ these who do not have the law are a law to themselves. 2:15 They¹⁶ show that the work of the law is written¹⁷ in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend¹⁸ them,¹⁹ 2:16 on the day when God will judge²⁰ the secrets of human hearts,²¹ according to my gospel²² through Christ Jesus.

The Condemnation of the Jew

2:17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law²³ and boast of your relationship to God²⁴

¹tn Aram “if there may be a lengthening to your prosperity.”

²tn Aram “looking to find.”

³tn Aram “from the side of the kingdom.”

⁴tn Aram “pretext and corruption.”

⁵tn Aram “no negligence or corruption was found in him.” The Greek version of Theodotion lacks the phrase “and no negligence or corruption was found in him.”

³tn Aram “were saying.”

⁴tn Aram “unless we find [it] against him.”

⁴tn Grk “by God.”

⁵tn Grk “its wrath”; the referent (the governing authorities) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶tn Grk “because of (the) conscience,” but the English possessive “your” helps to show whose conscience the context implies.

⁶tn Grk “by God.”

⁷tn The Greek sentence expresses this contrast more succinctly than is possible in English. Grk “For not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.”

⁸sn Gentile is a NT term for a non-Jew.

⁹tn Some (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans [ICC], 1:135-37) take the phrase φύσει (fusei, “by nature”) to go with the preceding “do not have the law,” thus: “the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature,” that is, by virtue of not being born Jewish.

¹⁰tn Grk “do by nature the things of the law.”

⁹tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was converted to a personal pronoun and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

¹⁰tn Grk “show the work of the law [to be] written,” with the words in brackets implied by the Greek construction.

¹¹tn Or “excuse.”

¹²tn Grk “their conscience bearing witness and between the thoughts accusing or also defending one another.”

¹⁰tn The form of the Greek word is either present or future, but it is best to translate in future because of the context of future judgment.

¹¹tn Grk “of people.”

¹²sn On my gospel cf. Rom 16:25; 2 Tim 2:8.

¹¹sn The law refers to the Mosaic law, described mainly in the OT books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

¹²tn Grk “boast in God.” This may be an allusion to Jer 9:24.