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title: Romans 13
slug: kjv-nt/romans-13
createdAt: 2024-09-11T01:32:15.182Z
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**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 for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to *execute* wrath upon him that doeth evil. **5 **Wherefore *ye* must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. **6 **For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. **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.

**8 **Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. **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, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. **10 **Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love *is* the fulfilling of the law.

**11 **And that, knowing the time, that now *it is* high time to awake out of sleep: for now *is* our salvation nearer than when we believed. **12 **The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. **13 **Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. **14 **But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to *fulfil* the lusts *thereof*.