Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
The precept to obey princes belongs to the law of love itself. He who introduces anarchy violates love, for anarchy brings confusion of all things. Other debts we pay and finish; the debt of love alone continues always due and must be discharged daily.
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To be just is to give to all their due. Render taxes readily and cheerfully, not waiting until the law compels you. Render respect and honor likewise; many who seem honest elsewhere make no conscience of cheating the king, directly contrary to this rule.
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Commenting on Romans 13:7-10
Discharge all debts of every kind, civil and natural, as soon as you are able. For men industriously to run into debt and take no care to pay brings great reproach on the Gospel. Yet love remains the only debt never wholly discharged, always owing and always to be paid.
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