1 Let every person be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that exist are ordained of God.
2 Whoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: and those who resist shall receive to themselves judgment.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will you then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and you shall have praise of the same:
4 For he is the servant of God to you into good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain: for he is the servant of God, a revenger to execute wrath into him who does evil.
5 Why you must be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
6 For because of this you pay tribute also: for they are God's servants, attending continually into this very thing.
7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; reverence to whom reverence; honor to whom honor.
8 Owe no one anything, but to love one another: for whoever loves another has fulfilled the law.
9 For this: You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet--and if there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this utterance, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
10 Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in wild parties and drunkenness, not in adultery and lasciviousness, not in zealous contention.
14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision into the flesh, to fulfill the desire for forbidden things.