Romans:13

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* LET every person be obedient to the superior authorities . For there is no authority except from God and the actual authorities have been appointed by God . * So he who resists the authority opposes the arrangement of God . Those who resist will bring on themselves condemnation . * For rulers are not a terror to good deeds , but to bad . Do you wish not to fear the authority ? Do what is good and you will have praise from it . * For he is a servant of God to promote your good . But if you are doing evil , be afraid ; for he does not bear the sword to no purpose . For he is God 's servant to inflict his wrath on him who practices evil . * Therefore we must be obedient , not only because of the punishment but as a matter of conscience . * For this reason also you pay tribute . For they are God 's officers attending to this very thing . * Pay to all their dues , tribute to whom tribute is due , custom to whom custom is due , respect to whom respect is due , honor to whom honor is due . * Owe no one anything , except to love one another . He who loves the other has fulfilled the Law . * For the commandments , "Thou shalt not commit adultery ," "Thou shalt not commit murder ," "Thou shalt not steal ," "Thou shalt not covet ," and any other that there may be , are summed up in this : "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself ." * Love works no evil to a neighbor . Love therefore is full obedience to the Law . * Live thus because you know this crisis , for it is already time for you to awake from sleep . For now our salvation is nearer than when we became believers . * The night is far spent , the day draws near . Let us put away the deeds of darkness , let us put on the weapons of light . * Let us live becomingly as in the day , not in revelry and drunkenness , not in sensuality and licentiousness , not in quarrelling and jealousy . * But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for gratifying physical passions .

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