13:1  Every person should subject himself to the governing authorities For no authority exists except from God, and those which exist God establishes.

13:2  Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.

13:3  For rulers do not cause fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do good and you will have praise from the same;

13:4   4for the authority serves as a minister of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for he serves as a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.

13:5  Therefore you should subject yourselves, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake.

13:6  For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers serve God, devoting themselves to this very thing.

13:7  Render to all what you owe them: tax to whom you owe taxes; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

13:8   Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

13:9  For this, " YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if any other commandment exists , we sum it up in this saying, " YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

13:10  Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love fulfills the law.

13:11  Do this, knowing the time has come, namely the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation has come nearer to us than when we believed.

13:12  The night has almost gone, and the day approaches Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

13:13   Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

13:14   But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.