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Citizens pay measured coin and produce in view while workers repair a road, aqueduct, and communal basin.
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Romans 13:5-7

Conscience, Taxes, Respect, and Honor

Authority, Love, and the Armor of Light · Romans 13

Story guide: Disclosed visual essay. Submission concerns conscience as well as fear of wrath. Taxes and revenue support public service, and each person is to receive what is owed—tax, revenue, respect, and honor.

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5Therefore it is necessary to submit, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience,

6For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers, devoting themselves to this very thing.

7Pay to all what is owed: to the one due tax, tax; to the one due revenue, revenue; to the one due fear, fear; to the one due honor, honor.

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