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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Romans 13 NET ESV Parallel</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newp.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/romans/">Romans</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.shtml" title="Romans 12">◄</a> Romans 13 <a href="../romans/14.shtml" title="Romans 14">►</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">NET Parallel ESV <a href="../../bsb/romans/13.shtml">[BSB</a> <a href="../../csb/romans/13.shtml">CSB</a> <a href="../../esv/romans/13.shtml">ESV</a> <a href="../../hcs/romans/13.shtml">HCS</a> <a href="../../kjv/romans/13.shtml">KJV</a> <a href="../../isv/romans/13.shtml">ISV</a> <a href="../../nas/romans/13.shtml">NAS</a> <a href="../../net/romans/13.shtml">NET</a> <a href="../../niv/romans/13.shtml">NIV</a> <a href="../../nlt/romans/13.shtml">NLT</a> <a href="../../heb/romans/13.shtml">GRK]</a></div><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="50%">NET Bible</td><td class="version" width="50%">English Standard Version</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God's appointment, and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So the person who resists such authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">(for rulers cause no fear for good conduct but for bad). Do you desire not to fear authority? Do good and you will receive its commendation,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">for it is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God's servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath of the authorities but also because of your conscience.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants devoted to governing.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the commandments, "Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet," (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, "Love your neighbor as yourself."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href "//netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. //netbible.com. 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