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          DASV: Romans 13    

1 Let everyone submit to the governing authorities. For there
is no authority except from God; and those that exist have
been instituted by God.
2 Therefore whoever resists authority, resists what God has
arranged and those who resist will incur judgment on
themselves.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to the bad.
Do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what is good,
and you will receive its approval,
4 for it is God's servant to you for good. But if you do what
is wrong, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword for nothing.
It is a servant of God, an avenger who executes God's wrath
on the one who does wrong.
5 Therefore you need to submit, not only because of the
authority's ability to punish, but also for conscience' sake.
6 For this same reason pay your taxes, for the authorities
are God's servants, busily attentive to their governing.
7 Pay everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due;
revenue to whom revenue is due; respect to whom respect is
due; and honor to whom honor is due.

8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for one who
loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You
shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet,"
and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this,
namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
10 Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the
fulfillment of the law.
11 Do this, realizing what time it is that it is already the hour
for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation is now nearer
than when we first believed.
12 The night is almost over and the day is near. Let us then lay
aside the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light.
13 Let us walk properly, as in the daytime; not in partying and
drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in
strife and jealousy.
14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision
for the flesh, to satisfy its desires.

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