Discovery BoxRomans 13:6-10
Context13:6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities 1 are God’s servants devoted to governing. 2 13:7 Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 13:9 For the commandments, 3 “Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,” 4 (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 5 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
[13:6] 1 tn Grk “they”; the referent (the governing authorities) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[13:6] 2 tn Grk “devoted to this very thing.”
[13:9] 3 tn Grk “For the…” (with the word “commandments” supplied for clarity). The Greek article (“the”) is used here as a substantiver to introduce the commands that are quoted from the second half of the Decalogue (ExSyn 238).
[13:9] 4 sn A quotation from Exod 20:13-15, 17; Deut 5:17-19, 21.
