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Version 0.94.54, 23 October 2023

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Romans Chapter 13

1Let every person be subject to supreme authorities. For there is no authority unless appointed by God, and the existing authorities have been appointed by God, 2so that he who opposes authority is resisting God's ordinance, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. 3For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to bad ones. Now do you wish not to fear authority? Do what is good, and you will have commendation for it, 4for it is an instrument of God which applies to you to good purpose. But if you do what is wrong, then fear, for it does not bear the sword for nothing, for it is an instrument of God, an avenger in wrath on him who does wrong. 5So it is necessary to be subject not only on account of the wrath, but also on account of one's conscience. 6So in view of this, pay your taxes also. For they are God's ministers persevering with this very thing. 7So pay to everyone what is due – tax to whom tax is due, levies to whom levies are due, fear to whom fear is due, honour to whom honour is due. 8Don't owe anyone anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9For the injunctions are, “You shall not commit adultery. You shall not commit murder. You shall not steal. You shall not covet.” And if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this formula: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” 10Love does not inflict harm on one's neighbour. Therefore love is the fulness of the law. 11And there is this, while we know the time, that the hour is already here for us to be roused from sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed. 12The night is advanced; the day has drawn near. So let us put away the works of darkness and put on the armour of light. 13Let us walk decently as in the day, not with orgies and in drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy, 14but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not indulge in the predisposition of the flesh in its desires.

Reference(s) in Chapter 13: v.9 ↔ Exodus 20:13-15, Exodus 20:17, Leviticus 19:18, Deuteronomy 5:17-19.

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