{"id":75722,"date":"2026-04-18T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/romans-136-7-niv-this-is-why-you-pay-taxes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T04:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:01:17","slug":"romans-136-7-niv-this-is-why-you-pay-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/romans-136-7-niv-this-is-why-you-pay-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Romans 13:6-7 NIV \u2013 This is why you pay taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-28273\" class=\"text Rom-13-6\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6 <\/sup>That&#8217;s why you pay taxes,<sup class=\"crossreference\" data-cr=\"#cen-NIV-28273A\" data-link=\"(&lt;a href=&quot;#cen-NIV-28273A&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference A&quot;&gt;A&lt;\/a&gt;)\">(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#cen-NIV-28273A\" title=\"See cross-reference A\">A<\/a>)<\/sup> Because officials are God&#8217;s servants, who devote all their time to governing.<\/span> <span id=\"en-NIV-28274\" class=\"text Rom-13-7\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7 <\/sup>Give everyone what you owe: If you owe taxes, pay the taxes;<sup class=\"crossreference\" data-cr=\"#cen-NIV-28274B\" data-link=\"(&lt;a href=&quot;#cen-NIV-28274B&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference B&quot;&gt;B&lt;\/a&gt;)\">(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#cen-NIV-28274B\" title=\"See cross-reference B\">b<\/a>)<\/sup> If revenue, then revenue; If you respect, then respect; If there is respect then there is respect.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 That&#8217;s why you pay taxes,(A) Because officials are God&#8217;s servants, who devote all their time to governing. 7 Give everyone what you owe: If you owe taxes, pay the taxes;(b) If revenue, then revenue; If you respect, then respect; If there is respect then there is respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[155,1293,148,1524],"class_list":["post-75722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scriptures","tag-niv","tag-pay","tag-romans","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75722","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=75722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75724,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75722\/revisions\/75724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}