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 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Romans 13 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><!-- Google tag (gtag.js) --> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Romans 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/12.htm" title="Romans 12">&#9668;</a> Romans 13 <a href="../romans/14.htm" title="Romans 14">&#9658;</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Duties toward State Authorities</h3><p class="par"><span class="v45_13_1"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.1" class="v45_13_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.13.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Everyone must obey state authorities, because no authority exists without God's permission, and the existing authorities have been put there by God. </span><span class="v45_13_2"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.2" class="v45_13_2">2</span>Whoever opposes the existing authority opposes what God has ordered; and anyone who does so will bring judgment on himself. </span><span class="v45_13_3"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.3" class="v45_13_3">3</span>For rulers are not to be feared by those who do good, but by those who do evil. Would you like to be unafraid of those in authority? Then do what is good, and they will praise you, </span><span class="v45_13_4"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.4" class="v45_13_4">4</span>because they are God's servants working for your own good. But if you do evil, then be afraid of them, because their power to punish is real. They are God's servants and carry out God's punishment on those who do evil. </span><span class="v45_13_5"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.5" class="v45_13_5">5</span>For this reason you must obey the authorities—not just because of God's punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v45_13_6"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.6" class="v45_13_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.13.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> That is also why you pay taxes, because the authorities are working for God when they fulfill their duties. </span><span class="v45_13_7"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.7" class="v45_13_7">7</span>Pay, then, what you owe them; pay them your personal and property taxes, and show respect and honor for them all.</span></p><h3 class="s">Duties toward One Another</h3><p class="par"><span class="v45_13_8"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.8" class="v45_13_8">8</span>Be under obligation to no one—the only obligation you have is to love one another. Whoever does this has obeyed the Law. </span><span class="v45_13_9"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.9" class="v45_13_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.13.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The commandments, “Do not commit adultery; do not commit murder; do not steal; do not desire what belongs to someone else”—all these, and any others besides, are summed up in the one command, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” </span><span class="v45_13_10"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.10" class="v45_13_10">10</span>If you love others, you will never do them wrong; to love, then, is to obey the whole Law.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v45_13_11"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.11" class="v45_13_11">11</span>You must do this, because you know that the time has come for you to wake up from your sleep. For the moment when we will be saved is closer now than it was when we first believed. </span><span class="v45_13_12"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.12" class="v45_13_12">12</span>The night is nearly over, day is almost here. Let us stop doing the things that belong to the dark, and let us take up weapons for fighting in the light. </span><span class="v45_13_13"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.13" class="v45_13_13">13</span>Let us conduct ourselves properly, as people who live in the light of day—no orgies or drunkenness, no immorality or indecency, no fighting or jealousy. </span><span class="v45_13_14"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.13.14" class="v45_13_14">14</span>But take up the weapons of the Lord Jesus Christ, and stop paying attention to your sinful nature and satisfying its desires.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society.  All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). 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