For the ruler is God's minister appointed for your good. But if you are a wrong-doer, be afraid; he does not carry the sword to no purpose; he is God's servant, appointed to vengeance upon the guilty.

Every one should be in the higher authorities; for there is no authority apart from God. The authorities that now exist have been appointed by God.

whom God hath appointed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, in the remission of past sins, according to the forbearance of God;

Therefore he who resists the authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;

Even as it is written - Father of many nations, have I appointed thee: before him whom he believed - God, who causeth the dead to live, and calleth the things that are not as things that are: -

who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

God has not rejected His [chosen] people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

For these are the words of the promise [Gen. 18:10], "I [i.e., God] will come at the appointed time and Sarah will have a son."

For I tell you that Christ was [appointed] to be a servant of the circumcised ones [i.e., the Jews], in order to uphold the truth of God. This was so He could confirm [as valid] the promises made to our forefathers,

for at the appointed time Christ died for us, when we were in a helpless, sinful state.

Moreover, which he appointed before, them he also called; and which he called, them also he justified; which he justified, them he also glorified.

As it is written, "For thy sake are we killed all day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain."

For, whom he fore-approved, he also fore-appointed to be conformed unto the image of his Son, that he might be firstborn among many brethren, -