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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1PE.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Submit yourselves for the Lord&#8217;s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1PE.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1PE.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For it is God&#8217;s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1PE.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God&#8217;s slaves. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1PE.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1PE.2.17"></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For the one in authority is God&#8217;s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God&#8217;s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.13.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God&#8217;s servants, who give their full time to governing. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have the right to do anything,&#8221; you say&#8212;but not everything is beneficial. &#8220;I have the right to do anything&#8221;&#8212;but I will not be mastered by anything. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You say, &#8220;Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.&#8221; The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. </span></span></div>
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