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For there is no authority but from God: the authorities that are, have been appointed by God. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Therefore, he that resists the authority, resists the appointment of God; and those who resist shall receive to themselves condemnation. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For rulers are not a terror to works that are good, but to those which are evil. Will you, then, not be afraid of the authority? Do that which is good, and you shall receive praise from the same. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For he is the minister of God to you for that which is good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain. For he is the minister of God to inflict punishment on him that does evil.<CM> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Wherefore, it is necessary to be subject, not only because of punishment, but also for conscience sake. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>On this very account, too, pay tribute also: for they are the public servants of God, attending continually to this very thing. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Render, therefore, to all their dues; tribute, to whom tribute is due; custom, to whom custom; fear, to whom fear; honor, to whom honor is due.<CM><p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Love Fulfills the Law<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Owe no one any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another, has fulfilled the law. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For these commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not indulge evil desire; and if there is any other commandment, all are summed up in this saying, namely: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Love works no evil to our neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.<CM><p> <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">The Day Is Near<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And do this, because you know the time, that the hour has already come when we should awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed: <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>the night is far advanced, the day draws near. Let us, therefore, put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Let us walk in a becoming manner, as in the day; not in riotings and in drunkenness, not in lewdness and in wantonness, not in contention and in envy: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Anderson's New Testament (1865)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../romans/12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Romans 12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Romans 12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../romans/14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Romans 14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Romans 14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>