{"id":69185,"date":"2026-04-16T05:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/romans-138-verse-of-the-day-for-thursday-april-16-2026-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:25:00","slug":"romans-138-verse-of-the-day-for-thursday-april-16-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/romans-138-verse-of-the-day-for-thursday-april-16-2026-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Romans 13:8 \u2014 Verse of the Day for Thursday, April 16, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Jesus paid the debt to God for our sins, transgressions, and rebellious actions (Colossians 2:13-14; 1 Peter 1:18-10). Thank God that because of God&#8217;s grace we no longer owe those transgressions (Romans 6:23). However, I am indebted to others for the love, respect, forgiveness, and grace that God has lavished on me (Ephesians 4:32). As <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.verseoftheday.com\/en\/04152026\/\">Paul reminded us yesterday<\/a>: : <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"noreftagger\"><p>Give everyone what you have to give. If you owe tax, pay the tax; If revenue, then revenue; If you respect, then respect; If there is respect then there is respect. (Romans 13:7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is this so important? we have to keep paying the installments <i>&#8220;To continue the debt of loving one another&#8221;<\/i> Just as Jesus has loved us!<\/div>\n<p>Holy God, everything in heaven and on earth is Yours, yet You have graciously shared them with us, Your children. We thank You for not only delivering us from the debt of our sin, but also from slavery to sin and evil, death and hell. Open our hearts to realize that You are our Master, yet love us freely and forgive us completely. Please awaken love in our hearts through the refreshing power of the Holy Spirit, whom you put into our hearts, that we may love others as you have loved us. In the name of Jesus, we pray and commit to love. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus paid the debt to God for our sins, transgressions, and rebellious actions (Colossians 2:13-14; 1 Peter 1:18-10). Thank God that because of God&#8217;s grace we no longer owe those transgressions (Romans 6:23). However, I am indebted to others for the love, respect, forgiveness, and grace that God has lavished on me (Ephesians 4:32). As<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1454,150,148,343,149],"class_list":["post-69185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-prayers","tag-april","tag-day","tag-romans","tag-thursday","tag-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69189,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69185\/revisions\/69189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}