1 Everyone should obey government authorities, because no one has the power to rule unless God gives permission. These authorities have been put there by God. 2 Whoever resists the authorities opposes what God has put in place, and those who do so shall find themselves judged accordingly. 3 For rulers don't frighten those who do right, but those who do wrong. If you don't want to live in fear of the authorities, then do what is right, and you'll have their approval. 4 Those in power are God's servants, put there for your own good. If you do wrong, you should be frightened—it's not without reason that authorities have the power to punish! They are God's servants, punishing offenders. 5 So it's important to do as you're told, not just because of the threat of punishment, but because of what your conscience tells you. 6 That's why you have to pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants taking care of such things. 7 Pay whatever you owe: taxes to the tax authorities, fees to the fee-collectors; give respect to those who should be respected, honor those who should be honored. 8 Don't owe anybody anything, except love for one another—for those who love their neighbor have kept the law. 9 “You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not jealously want things for yourself”—these and the other commandments are summed up in the statement, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love doesn't do wrong to anyone, so love fulfils the law. 11 You should do this because you realize how urgent the time is—that it's high time for you to wake up from your sleep. For salvation is closer to us now than when we first put our trust in God. 12 The night is nearly over, the day is almost here! So let's get rid of our dark deeds and put on the armor of light. 13 Let's behave properly, showing that we're people who are living in the light. We shouldn't spend our time going to wild parties and getting drunk, or having affairs and acting immorally, or getting into fights and being jealous. 14 Instead put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and forget about following your sinful desires.
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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
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
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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 …