Rom 13:6-7 | ESV | STEP | For because of this you also pay taxes , for the authorities are ministers of God , attending to this very thing .

Romans 13:6-7

6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 ^aPay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.