Pay your obligations(A) to everyone: taxes to those you owe taxes,(B) tolls to those you owe tolls, respect to those you owe respect,(C) and honor to those you owe honor.

Love, Our Primary Duty

Do not owe anyone anything,[a] except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.(D) The commandments:

Do not commit adultery;
do not murder;
do not steal;[b]
do not covet;(E)[c]

and whatever other commandment—all are summed up by this: Love your neighbor as yourself.(F)[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 13:8 Or Leave no debt outstanding to anyone
  2. Romans 13:9 Other mss add you shall not bear false witness
  3. Romans 13:9 Ex 20:13-17; Dt 5:17-21
  4. Romans 13:9 Lv 19:18

Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes;(A) if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Love Fulfills the Law

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.(B) The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”[a](C) and whatever other command there may be, are summed up(D) in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b](E)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 13:9 Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21
  2. Romans 13:9 Lev. 19:18