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Romans 13

1 The obedience to the Rulers. 4 Why they have the sword. 8 Charity ought to measure all our doings. 11 An exhortation to innocence and purity of life.
1.Let *every soul be subject unto the higher powers: for there is no power but of God: and the powers that be, are ordained of God.
2.Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist, shall receive to themselves ajudgement.
3.For princes are not to be feared for good works, but for evil. Wilt you then be without fear of the power? do well: so shalt thou have praise of the same.
4.For he is the minister of God for thy wealth: but if thou do evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword for naught: for he is the minister of God ^to take vengeance on him that doeth evil.
5.Wherefore ye must be subject, not because of wrath only, but also for bconscience sake.
6.For, for this cause ye pay also tribute: for they are God’s ministers, applying themselves for the same cthing.
7.*Give to all men therefore their duty: tribute, to whom ye owe tribute: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom ye owe honour.
8.Owe nothing to any man, but to love one another: for he that loveth another, hath fulfilled the dLaw.
9.For this, *Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet: and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, even in this, *Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10.Love doeth not evil to his neighbour: therefore is love the *fulfilling of the Law.
11.And that, considering the season, that it is now time that we should arise from sleep: for now is our salvation enearer, than when we believed it.
12.The night is past, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast away the works of darkness, and let us put on the farmour of light,
13.So that we walk honestly, as in the day: not in *^gluttony, and drunkenness, neither in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying:
14.*But put ye on the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and take no thought for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts of it.

Notes

1-*.
Wisd. 6.4, Tit. 3.1, 1 Pet. 2.13
2-a.
Not only the punishment of the Judges, but also the vengeance of God.
4-^.
Greek, a revenger with wrath.
5-b.
For no private man can contemn that government which God hath appointed without the breach of his conscience: and here, he speaks of civil magistrates: so that Antichrist and his can not wrest this place to establish their tyranny over the conscience.
6-c.
That is, to defend the good, and to punish the evil.
7-*.
Mat. 22.21
8-d.
He meaneth only the second table.
9-*.
Exod. 20.14, Deut. 5.18
9-*-1.
Levit. 19.18, Mat. 22.39, Gal. 5.14, Jam. 2.8
10-*.
1 Tim. 1.5
11-e.
Before we believed, it had been in vain to tell us these things: but now seeing our salvation is near, let us take heed that we neglect not this occasion.
12-f.
That is, honest manners and godly.
13-*.
Luk. 21.34
13-^.
Or, riot
14-*.
Gal. 5.16, 2 Pet. 2.10