Romans 13:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁶ For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For this same reason you pay taxes, for [the civil authorities] are official servants under God, devoting themselves to attending to this very service.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For for this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God’s service, attending continually upon this very thing.

Common English Bible

⁶ You should also pay taxes for the same reason, because the authorities are God’s assistants, concerned with this very thing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Therefore, you must also offer tribute. For they are the ministers of God, serving him in this.

Romans 13:6 Cross References

2 Samuel 8:5

And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.

1 Chronicles 18:14

So David reigned over all Israel; and he administered justice and equity to all his people.

Ezra 4:13

Now be it known to the king that, if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.

Ezra 4:20

And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.

Ezra 6:8

Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God; the cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.

Nehemiah 5:4

And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king's tax upon our fields and our vineyards.

Luke 23:2

And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king.”

Romans 12:8

he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality; he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Romans 13:5

Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.

Romans 13:7

Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.