Fear not. Romans 13:3 holds the answer. Read that as a limit on authority.
I believe that evil has firmly rooted itself in the heart of this nation and it’s “leaders.” The words in two different translations of the Bible have nothing to do with that. Rather, the nearly complete rejection of God by a huge segment of the American population does. After all, if they reject God, how could a different translation of His Word matter to them?
That said, I believe that the proper translation can help those of us who actually believe better understand what is happening and why.
How does this compare?
Romans 13
1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
2 Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer.
5 Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
6 For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
7 Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed;
12 the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;
13 let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.
14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
I've read--and understood-- that passage in Greek. It says pretty much the same.
The problem is, the governments we have in the US are MUCH MORE than the definition of good government that Paul calls out here, and still Christians believe we must pay tribute to them to kill babies before they can take a breath, and to kill thousands overseas, and to pay their minions to take our freedoms away.
There's a great book on this subject that I have at home. I'll post later with a link to Amazon.
The key to understanding this is to put the Constitution in in it’s proper place.
Gods Word will be preserved. The tyranny is because we have grown soft and cowardly under our great blessing, which is this nation.
We have allowed evil to grow instead of stamping it out. God gave us a guideline in the Bible and his Son showed us the way. We are in the very early stages of reaping our just reward for failing Him!
He who has ears, left him hear!