ERROMATARREI 13

Kristauak agintarien menpeko

1 Gizaki orok izan behar du ezarritako agintarien menpeko. Ez baita aginterik Jainkoarengandik ez denik, eta oraingo agintariak ere hark ezarriak dira.t 2 Beraz, agintarien menpeko egiten ez denak Jainkoaren erabakiari egiten dio aurka, eta hari aurka egiten dionak beraren epaia izango du. 3 Agintedunak ez dira beldur izatekoak ongi jokatzen denean, gaizki jokatzen denean baizik. Agintarien beldurrik gabe bizi nahi al duzu? Joka ezazu ongi, eta haien onespena izango duzu, 4 Jainkoaren zerbitzari baitira, zuri ongi jokatzen laguntzeko. Gaizki egiten baduzu, ordea, izan beldur, zigortzeko ahalmena ez baitute alferrik. Izan ere, Jainkoaren zerbitzari dira, justizia egin eta gaizkileak zigortzeko. 5 Horregatik, beharrezko da agintarien menpeko izatea, baina zigorraren beldurrez ez ezik, baita kontzientziaren eraginez ere. 6 Horrexegatik ordaintzen dituzue zergak ere, agintariak Jainkoaren ordezkari direlako, horretarako jarriak direlako.

7 Eman bakoitzari zor diozuena: zergak, kontribuzioak, begirunea, ohorea, nori berea.t

Maitasuna legearen muina

10 Lagun hurkoa maite duenak ez dio gaitzik egiten. Maite duenak, beraz, erabat betetzen du legea.
11 Horrek guztiak balio berezia du zein garaitan bizi garen jakinik. Izan ere, ordua da lotatik esnatzeko, sinesten hasi berri hartan baino hurbilago baitugu orain salbamena.t 12 Badoa gaua, gainean dugu eguna; utz ditzagun, beraz, ilunpetako egintzak eta presta gaitezen argitan jarduteko.t 13 Gabiltzan duintasunez, egun-argiz bezala: ez jan-edanean eta hordikerian, ez lizunkerian eta neurrigabekerian, ez haserrean eta norgehiagokerian. 14 Bizi zaitezte Jesu Kristo Jaunari itsatsiak, eta ez ibili giza grinak bete nahian.t

Romans 13

Submission to Civil Government

1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God’s appointment,t and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.2 So the person who resists such authorityt resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment3 (for rulers cause no fear for good conduct but for bad). Do you desire not to fear authority? Do good and you will receive its commendation,4 for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God’s servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.5 Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath of the authoritiest but also because of your conscience.t6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authoritiest are God’s servants devoted to governing.t

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.

Exhortation to Love Neighbors

8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.9 For the commandments,t “Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,”s (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”s

10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Motivation to Godly Conduct

11 And do thist because we knowt the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.12 The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.13 Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

14 Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.t