1 Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Compare verse17 commentaries
2 Whoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. Compare verse9 commentaries
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will you then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and you shall have praise of the same: Compare verse9 commentaries
4 For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath on him that does evil. Compare verse10 commentaries
5 Why you must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. Compare verse9 commentaries
6 For for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually on this very thing. Compare verse7 commentaries
7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. Compare verse12 commentaries
8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. Compare verse13 commentaries
9 For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Compare verse14 commentaries
10 Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Compare verse9 commentaries
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. Compare verse12 commentaries
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 armor of light. Compare verse14 commentaries
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. Compare verse9 commentaries
14 But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. Compare verse15 commentaries