Romans 13:7
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:3All of you shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
1 Samuel 12:18So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
Proverbs 24:21My son, fear you the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
Matthew 22:21They say unto him, Caesar's. Then says he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Luke 20:25And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.
Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence 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 →