KJ3 Literal Translation
Romans 13
Subjection, and other duties, we owe to magistrates.
1Let every soul be subject to higher authorities having power, for there is no authority except from God, but the existing authorities have been ordained by God.
2So that the one resisting authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and the ones opposing will receive judgment to themselves.
3For the rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the bad ones. And do you desire not to fear the authority? Do the good, and you will have praise from it;
4for it is a servant of God to you for the good. But if you do the bad things, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword in vain; for it is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to the one practicing bad things.
5Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also on account of conscience.
6For on this account you also pay taxes, for they are ministers of God, attending continually to this very thing.
7Therefore give over to all their dues: to the one due tax, the tax; to the one due tribute, the tribute; to the one due fear, the fear; to the one due honor, the honor.
8Do not continue to owe, no one, nothing, if not to love one another. For the one loving the other has fulfilled the Law.
9For, “Do not commit adultery,” “do not murder,” “do not steal,” do not bear false witness, “do not covet,” Ex. 20:13-15, 17 and if there is any other commandment, in this Word it is summed up, in the words, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Lev. 19:18
10Love does not work bad to the neighbor. Then the fulfillment of Law is love.
11Also this, knowing the time, that it is now the hour for you to be aroused from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
12The night is advanced, and the day has drawn near; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of the light.
13Let us walk becomingly, as in the day, not in revelries and drunkenness, not in cohabitations and lustful acts, not in strife and envy.
14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make forethought of the flesh, for its lusts.
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