Romans 13:7

Pay to everyone what is owed to them. Tax to whom tax is due, toll to whom toll is due; fear to whom fear is due, honor to whom honor is due.

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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

6Because of this you pay taxes also. For authorities are servants of God, who attend to this very thing continually.

8Owe no one anything, except to love one another. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:3Everyone must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

1 Samuel 12:18So Samuel called to Yahweh; and that same day Yahweh sent thunder and rain. Then all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.

Proverbs 24:21Fear Yahweh, and fear the king, my son; 1 do not associate with those who rebel against them, 1

Matthew 22:21They said to him, “Caesar's.” Then Jesus said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”

Luke 20:25He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”

Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless, each of you also must love his own wife as 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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