Roma 13:6-7

13:6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities ¹  are God’s servants devoted to governing. ²  13:7 Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

[13:6]  ¹ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the governing authorities) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:6]  ² tn Grk “devoted to this very thing.”