| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For this, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts. |
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