obligation
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7Therefore, render to all whatever is owed. Taxes, to whom taxes is due; revenue, to whom revenue is due; fear, to whom fear is due; honor, to whom honor is due.
10I think not. So too, when you have done all these things that have been taught to you, you should say: ‘We are useless servants. We have done what we should have done.’ ”
13Let us all listen together to the end of the discourse. Fear God, and observe his commandments. This is everything for man.
2Carry one another’s burdens, and so shall you fulfill the law of Christ.
5“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And before you went forth from the womb, I sanctified you. And I made you a prophet to the nations.”
16For if I preach the Gospel, it is not glory for me. For an obligation has been laid upon me. And woe to me, if I do not preach the Gospel.
21They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Then render to Caesar what is of Caesar; and to God what is of God.”
17Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.
7each one giving, just as he has determined in his heart, neither out of sadness, nor out of obligation. For God loves a cheerful giver.
14To the Greeks and to the uncivilized, to the wise and to the foolish, I am in debt.
1Admonish them to be subordinate to the rulers and authorities, to obey their dictates, to be prepared for every good work,
48Yet he who did not know, and who acted in a way that deserves a beating, will be beaten fewer times. So then, of all to whom much has been given, much will be required. And of those to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be asked.
13Therefore, be subject to every human creature because of God, whether it is to the king as preeminent, 14or to leaders as having been sent from him for vindication over evildoers, it is truly for the praise of what is good. 15For such is the will of God, that by doing good you may bring about the silence of imprudent and ignorant men, 16in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like servants of God. 17Honor everyone. Love brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
8I will reveal to you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God.
13For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.