Romans 13:8

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Romans 13:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

9 The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

10 Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

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Romans 13:7

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.

Deuteronomy 24:14

Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

Deuteronomy 24:15

You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Proverbs 3:27

Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

Proverbs 3:28

Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.

Matthew 7:12

In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 22:39

And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Matthew 22:40

All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Romans 13:10

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Galatians 5:14

The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Colossians 3:14

And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

1 Timothy 1:5

The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

James 2:8

If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.