Romans 13:6-10

6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing.
7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Love Fulfills the Law

8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”[a] and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b]
10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Cross References 7

  • 1. Matthew 22:17
  • 2. Matthew 17:25; Matthew 22:17,21; Luke 23:2
  • 3. ver 10; S Matthew 5:43; John 13:34; Galatians 5:14; Colossians 3:14
  • 4. Ex 20:13-15,17; Dt 5:17-19,21
  • 5. Matthew 7:12
  • 6. Leviticus 19:18; S Matthew 5:43; Matthew 19:19
  • 7. S ver 8; ver 9; Matthew 22:39,40

Footnotes 2

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