For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities[a] are servants of God, busily engaged in this very thing. Pay to everyone what is owed: pay taxes to whom taxes are due; pay customs duties to whom customs duties are due; pay respect to whom respect is due; pay honor to whom honor is due.[b]

Love Fulfills the Law

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 13:6 Literally “they”
  2. Romans 13:7 Due to the very compressed style in this verse, many words must be supplied to make sense in English