This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.For for this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God’s service, attending continually upon this very thing.
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… allows the congregation to stand for the reading of the Word of God. Therefore, you must be subject not only because of wrath, but also for conscience's sake. For because of this, you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render, therefore, to all their due, taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, you shall not covet. And if there's any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no harm to a neighbor, therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. This is the Word of God for God's people. Please be seated. Let us pray. Again, O Lord, we would be instructed not by human wisdom, but by that revelation that comes to us from Your omniscience. And this evening, as we direct our attention once again to this sacred text, we ask that You would help us understand it correctly and embrace it with our minds and with our hearts. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. We've seen in the beginning of chapter 13 Paul's critical teaching of the role of civil government, which is instituted by God, and here we are told that the rulers, the secular rulers of this world, are God's ministers. And in …
For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid. For he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due, taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, and honor to whom honor. again this is not the insights of a first century jewish scholar but this is the word of god please be seated Let us pray. Fathers, we continue to explore the implications of these things that are revealed to us in your holy word. We ask that you would grant us clarity of understanding and hearts that are submissive to the rule of your word. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. …
… So let's look together now at the beginning of chapter 13 of Romans, and I'll ask the congregation please to stand, if you're able. Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment upon themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience's sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, and honor to whom honor. The word of God for the people of God. …