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Romans 13 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:2 - Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:3 - 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,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:4 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:5 - Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:6 - For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:7 - 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.
(cf. Mar 12:31; Jas 2:8 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:8 - Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:9 - 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."

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:10 - Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:11 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:12 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:13 - let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:14 - But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

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Romans Chapter 13 — Additional Translations:

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