Romans 13:7

Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

In Context

6This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.

8Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

1 Samuel 12:18So Samuel called to the LORD, and on that day the LORD sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

Proverbs 24:21My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not associate with the rebellious.

Matthew 22:21“Caesar’s,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

Luke 20:25So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Matthew Henry on Romans 13:2-7

Obedience to Magistrates Enforced. ( a. d. 58.) 1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: 4 For he is the minister of God to thee… Read the whole commentary →

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