Romans 13:6
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.
In context
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.
Romans 13:6 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.
- KJV King James Version
- For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
- WEB World English Bible
- For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For for this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God’s service, attending continually upon this very thing.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- for because of this also pay ye tribute; for servants of God they are, on this very thing attending continually;
- DBY Darby Translation
- For on this account ye pay tribute also; for they are God's officers, attending continually on this very thing.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For, for this cause ye pay tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.