1 Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God. 2 Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval. 4 For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience. 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. 11 And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14 Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
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Referencias cruzadas (14)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Tito 3:1; 1 Pedro 2:13–17; Daniel 2:21; Juan 19:11; Proverbios 8:15–16
- 2 1 Pedro 2:13; Tito 3:1; Santiago 3:1; Romanos 13:5; Lucas 20:47
- 3 Eclesiastés 10:4–6; Proverbios 14:35; Proverbios 20:2; 1 Pedro 2:13–14; Deuteronomio 25:1
- 4 Romanos 12:19; 2 Crónicas 19:6; Proverbios 24:23–24; Proverbios 20:2; Proverbios 16:14
- 5 1 Pedro 2:19; Eclesiastés 8:2; Hechos 24:16; 1 Pedro 2:13–15; Tito 3:1–2
- 6 Mateo 22:17–21; Lucas 23:2; Lucas 20:21–26; Mateo 17:24–27; Marcos 12:14–17
- 7 Lucas 20:25; 1 Pedro 2:17–18; Proverbios 24:21; Mateo 17:25; 1 Timoteo 5:17
- 8 Romanos 13:10; Mateo 22:39–40; Gálatas 5:14; Mateo 7:12; Proverbios 3:27–28
- 9 Éxodo 20:12–17; Mateo 22:39; Marcos 12:31; Lucas 10:27; Deuteronomio 5:16–21
- 10 Romanos 13:8; Mateo 22:39–40; 1 Corintios 13:4–7
- 11 1 Tesalonicenses 5:5–8; 1 Pedro 4:7; Efesios 5:14; Mateo 24:42–44; 1 Corintios 15:34
- 12 Ezequiel 18:31–32; Efesios 5:11; 2 Corintios 6:7; Colosenses 3:8–17; Efesios 6:11–18
- 13 Gálatas 5:21; Efesios 5:18; 1 Tesalonicenses 4:3–5; 1 Pedro 4:3–5; Efesios 5:15
- 14 Efesios 4:24; Gálatas 5:16–17; Gálatas 3:27; 1 Pedro 2:11; Gálatas 5:24
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Of this subject he makes much account in other epistles also, setting subjects under their rulers as household servants are under their masters.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)
And Paul in like manner declares, "Love is the fulfilling of the law:" and [he declares] that when all other things have been destroyed, there shall remain "faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of all is love;" and that apart from the love of God, neither knowledge avails anything, nor the understanding of mysteries, nor faith, nor prophecy, but …
… in silence read that paragraph on which my eyes first fell,--"Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof." No further would I read, nor did I need; for instantly, as the sentence ended,--by …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
But that it is even at the doors, hear Paul saying, "The night is far spent, the day is at hand;" and again, "He that cometh will come, and will not tarry." For the signs too are now complete, which announce that day.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For this cause pay ye tribute also; for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing." Both the Lord, then, and the apostles announce as the one only God the Father, Him who gave the law, who sent the prophets, who made all things; and therefore does He say, "He sent His armies," because every man, inasmuch as …