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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 class="content">  </span></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><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Love Fulfills the Law</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The commandments, &#8220;You shall not commit adultery,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not murder,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not steal,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not covet,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:9 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21</span></span></span><span class="content"> and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:9 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day Is Near</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:14 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="content">&#8220;Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="content">wisdom and power are his.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He changes times and seasons;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">he deposes kings and raises up others.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">He gives wisdom to the wise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">and knowledge to the discerning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He reveals deep and hidden things;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="content">he knows what lies in darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="content">and light dwells with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="content">You have given me wisdom and power,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="content">you have made known to me what we asked of you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="content">you have made known to us the dream of the king.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="HEB.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="HEB.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="HEB.11.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="HEB.11.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="HEB.11.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="HEB.11.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">They were put to death by stoning;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:37 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">stoning; they were put to the test;</span></span></span><span class="content"> they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="HEB.11.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="HEB.11.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="HEB.11.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="HEB.11.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.</span></span></div>
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