my family is all a bunch of cucks . So im not . <| sep |> I ' m hearing this misunderstanding of Romans 13 not for the first time . Please read the whole chapter . In verse 3 and 4 , 34 you find the condition which defines what a governing authority is 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct , but to bad . Would you have no fear of the one 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 . For he is the servant of God , an avenger who carries out God ' s wrath on the wrongdoer . So if rulers are terror to good conduct , as Hitler was in the time of Bonhoeffer or as the Chinese government for many house church members is today , Christians need to resist .