Civil and social duties

113.1: Tit 3.1; 1 Pet 2.13-14; Prov 8.15; Jn 19.11.Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 313.3: 1 Pet 2.14.For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 413.4: 1 Thess 4.6.for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer. 5Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 713.7: Mt 22.21; Mk 12.17; Lk 20.25.Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honour to whom honour is due.

813.8: Mt 22.39-40; Rom 13.10; Gal 5.14; Col 3.14; Jas 2.8.Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbour has fulfilled the law. 913.9: Ex 20.13-17; Deut 5.17-18; Lev 19.18; Mt 19.19.The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” 1013.10: Mt 22.39-40; Rom 13.8; Gal 5.14; Jas 2.8.Love does no wrong to a neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

1113.11: Eph 5.14; 1 Thess 5.6.Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed; 1213.12: 1 Jn 2.8; Eph 5.11; 1 Thess 5.8.the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light; 1313.13: 1 Thess 4.12; Gal 5.19-21.let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in revelling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. 1413.14: Gal 3.27; 5.16.But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.