New Testament · SCRIPTURE
Romans 13:6
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This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.
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For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
KJV text & permissions
For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
For for this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God’s service, attending continually upon this very thing.
ASV text & permissions
For because of this, you⁺ also pay taxes; for they are ministers of God, attending continually to this very thing.
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Romans 13
4 For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.
5 Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.
6 This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.
7 Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
8 Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
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