For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God
our
Saviour.
] Not only to live peaceably and quietly under the government men
are, since that is the ordination of God, and to live soberly,
righteously, and godly, which his grace teaches; but to pray for
all sorts of men, and for those who are set in the highest place
of government, even though enemies and persecutors: this is good
in itself, and in the sight of an omniscient God, who sees not as
man seeth; and it is acceptable unto him through Jesus Christ, by
whom every sacrifice of prayer or praise is so; for by God our
Saviour is meant God the Father, who is the Saviour of all men,
in a way of providence, and the Saviour of all the elect in a way
of special grace; (See Gill on 1
Timothy 2:1).