[a]For, for this cause ye pay also tribute: for they are God’s ministers, applying themselves for the same thing.

(A)Give to all men therefore their duty: tribute, to whom ye owe tribute: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom [b]fear: honor, to whom ye owe [c]honor.

[d]Owe nothing to any man, but to love one another: [e]for he that loveth another, hath fulfilled the [f]Law.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 13:6 He reckoneth up the chiefest things wherein consisteth the obedience of subjects.
  2. Romans 13:7 Obedience, and that from the heart.
  3. Romans 13:7 Reverence, (which as reason is) we must give to the Magistrate.
  4. Romans 13:8 He showeth how very few judgments need to be executed, to wit, if we so order our life, as no man may justly require anything of us, besides that only that we owe one to another, by the perpetual law of charity.
  5. Romans 13:8 He commendeth charity, as an abridgement of the whole Law.
  6. Romans 13:8 He hath not only done one commandment, but performed generally that which the Law commandeth.

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