This is confusing to me. After saying what he said in verses 34-35, Paul continues in verses 36-37, "Or did the word of God come originally from you? Or was it you only that it reached? If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord." Are you denying that what he wrote in this passage are, in fact, "the commandments of the Lord"? This would seem to make Paul a liar here, unless there's something I'm not seeing.
- Jesus did walk-the-walk from the living to the cross
with no regrets or complaints against the local law enforcement.
So if Paul supported local law, as he
does state, then he was giving advice based
on the commandments of the Lord,
which are to follow local laws as Jesus did.
- The Holy Spirit goes direct to our hearts.
Galatians 4:6
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
Jeremiah 17:10
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Jeremiah 31:31-34
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.
(I meant to say, I shall have Paul inform you.)