Romans 13:7

Give to all their dues: custom to whom custom is due; tribute to whom tribute is due; fear to whom fear is due; honor to whom honor is due.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

6For on account of this also pay tribute; for they are the ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

8Owe no man anything, but to love one another with divine love: for the one loving another with divine love has fulfilled the law.

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Cross References

Matthew 22:21They say to Him, Caesar's. Then He says to them, Therefore render Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things which are God's.

Luke 20:25And He said to them, Therefore render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things which are God's.

Ephesians 5:33Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the 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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