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6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing.
7 aRender therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.  

Love Your Neighbor

8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for ahe who loves another has fulfilled the law.  
9 For the commandments, a“You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”1 “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, b“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  
10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore alove is the fulfillment of the law.  

Put on Christ

11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time ato awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.  
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. aTherefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and blet us put on the armor of light.  
13 aLet us walk1 properly, as in the day, bnot in revelry and drunkenness, cnot in lewdness and lust, dnot in strife and envy.  
14 But aput on the Lord Jesus Christ, and bmake no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Romans 13:8

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another - In the preceding verses the apostle has been showing the duty, reverence, and obedience, which all Christians, from the highest to the lowest, owe to the civil magistrate; whether he be emperor, king, proconsul, or other state officer; here he shows them their duty to each other: but this is widely different from that which they owe to the civil government: to the first they owe subjection, reverence, obedience, and tribute; to the latter they owe nothing but mutual love, and those offices which necessarily spring from it. Therefore, the apostle says, Owe no man; as if he had said: Ye owe to your fellow brethren nothing but mutual love, and this is what the law of God requires, and in this the law is fulfilled. Ye are not bound in obedience to them as to the civil magistrate; for to him ye must needs be subject, not merely for fear of punishment, but for conscience sake: but to these ye are bound by love; and by that love especially which utterly prevents you from doing any thing by which a brother may sustain any kind of injury.


 
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