21NOT DO BE OVERCOME BY <THE> EVIL BUT DO OVERCOME WITH <THE> GOOD <THE> EVIL. 21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
1EVERY SOUL TO THE AUTHORITIES BEING ABOVE [HIM] SHOULD BE SUBJECT. NOT FOR THERE IS AUTHORITY ONLY EXCEPT BY GOD, THOSE HOWEVER EXISTING AUTHORITIES BY <THE> GOD INSTITUTED ARE. Submission to Authorities (1 Peter 2:13–20) 1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.
2THEREFORE THE [ONE] RESISTING THE AUTHORITY THE <THE> OF GOD ORDINANCE HAS RESISTED; THOSE NOW HAVING RESISTED UPON THEMSELVES JUDGMENT WILL BRING. 2Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.
3THE FOR RULERS NOT ARE A TERROR TO THE GOOD WORK BUT TO THE EVIL. DO YOU DESIRE NOW NOT TO FEAR THE AUTHORITY? THE GOOD DO PERFORM AND YOU WILL HAVE PRAISE FROM HIM; 3For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.
4OF GOD FOR SERVANT HE IS TO YOU FOR <THE> GOOD. IF HOWEVER <THE> EVIL YOU SHALL DO, DO BE AFRAID; NOT FOR IN VAIN THE SWORD HE BEARS. OF GOD FOR A SERVANT HE IS AN AVENGER FOR WRATH TO THE [ONE] <THE> EVIL DOING. 4For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.
5THEREFORE NECESSARY [IT IS] TO BE SUBJECT, NOT ONLY ON ACCOUNT OF THE WRATH BUT ALSO ON ACCOUNT OF THE CONSCIENCE. 5Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.
6BECAUSE OF THIS FOR ALSO TAXES PAY YOU; SERVANTS FOR OF GOD THEY ARE UPON THIS VERY THING ATTENDING CONTINUALLY. 6This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.
7DO RENDER THEREFORE TO ALL THEIR DUES, TO WHOM THE TAX THE TAX, TO WHOM THE REVENUE THE REVENUE, TO WHOM THE RESPECT THE RESPECT, TO WHOM THE HONOR THE HONOR. 7Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
8TO NO ONE NOTHING DO OWE ONLY EXCEPT <THE> ONE ANOTHER TO LOVE; THE [ONE] FOR LOVING THE OTHER [THE] LAW HAS FULFILLED; Love Fulfills the Law (Leviticus 19:9–18) 8Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
9<THE> FOR NOT YOU WILL COMMIT ADULTERY, NOT YOU WILL MURDER, NOT YOU WILL STEAL NOT WILL YOU BEAR FALSE WITNESS NOT YOU WILL COVET, AND IF ANY OTHER COMMANDMENT, IN <THE> WORD THIS IT IS SUMMED UP, IN THE [SAYING] YOU WILL LOVE THE NEIGHBOUR OF YOU AS YOURSELF. 9The commandments “Do not commit adultery, ” “Do not murder, ” “Do not steal, ” “Do not covet,”*NoteCloseExodus 20:13–17; Deuteronomy 5:17–21 and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”*NoteCloseLeviticus 19:18
10<THE> LOVE TO THE NEIGHBOUR EVIL NOT DOES DO; [THE] FULFILLMENT THEREFORE OF [THE] LAW <THE> LOVE [IS]. 10Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
11AND THIS KNOWING THE TIME, THAT [IT IS THE] HOUR ALREADY [FOR] YOU OUT OF SLEEP TO AWAKEN; NOW FOR NEARER [IS] OF US THE SALVATION THAN WHEN FIRST WE BELIEVED; The Day Is Near 11And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
12THE NIGHT IS NEARLY OVER <THE> AND THE DAY HAS DRAWN NEAR. WE MAY CAST OFF THEREFORE THE WORKS <THE> OF DARKNESS, AND WE MAY PUT ON NOW THE ARMOR <THE> OF LIGHT. 12The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
13AS IN DAYTIME PROPERLY WE MAY WALK, NOT IN REVELING AND IN DRINKING, NOT IN SEXUAL IMMORALITY AND IN SENSUALITY, NOT IN DISSENSION AND IN JEALOUSY; 13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
14BUT DO PUT ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND OF THE FLESH PROVISION NOT DO MAKE FOR DESIRES. 14Instead, clothe yourselves with*NoteCloseOr put on; see verse 12. the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.