13:1 1 He willeth that we submit ourselves to Magistrates: 8 To love our neighbor: 13 To love uprightly, 14 and to put on Christ. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers: for there is no power but of God: and the powers that be, are ordained of God.
13:2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist, shall receive to themselves condemnation.
13:3 For Magistrates are not to be feared for good works, but for evil. Wilt thou then be without fear of the power? do well: so shalt thou have praise of the same.
13:4 For he is the minister of God for thy wealth: but if thou do evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword for nought: for he is the minister of God to take vengeance on him that doeth evil.
13:5 Wherefore ye must be subject, not because of wrath only, but also for conscience sake.
13:6 For, for this cause ye pay also tribute: for they are God’s ministers, applying themselves for the same thing.
13:7 Give to all men therefore their duty: tribute, to whom ye owe tribute: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honor, to whom ye owe honor.
13:8 Owe nothing to any man, but to love one another: for he that loveth another, hath fulfilled the Law.
13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet: and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
13:10 Love doeth not evil to his neighbor: therefore is love the fulfilling of the Law.
13:11 And that, considering the season, that it is now time that we should arise from sleep: for now is our salvation nearer, than when we believed it.
13:12 The night is past, and the day is at hand, let us therefore cast away the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light,
13:13 So that we walk honestly, as in the day: not in gluttony, and drunkenness, neither in chambering and wantonness, nor in strife and envying.
13:14 But put ye on the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and take no thought for the flesh, to fulfill the lust of it.
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