Romans 13:9 in context
Romans 13:6–12
For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.
Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,”
- Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21
- Leviticus 19:18
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