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Romans - Chapter 13

	Rom 13:1	Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.
	Rom 13:2	Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.
	Rom 13:3	For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.
	Rom 13:4	For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.
	Rom 13:5	Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience' sake.
	Rom 13:6	For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing.
	Rom 13:7	Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
	Rom 13:8	Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.
	Rom 13:9	For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," [fn] "You shall not covet," [fn] and if [there is] any other commandment, are [all] summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." [fn]
	Rom 13:10	Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love [is] the fulfillment of the law.
	Rom 13:11	And [do] this, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation [is] nearer than when we [first] believed.
	Rom 13:12	The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
	Rom 13:13	Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
	Rom 13:14	But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to [fulfill its] lusts.

NKJV Footnotes:

(13:9) NU-Text omits "You shall not bear false witness."
(13:9) Exodus 20:13-15, 17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19, 21
(13:9) Leviticus 19:18

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