¹⁷ Honor everyone. Love the family of believers.^[a] Fear God. Honor the emperor.^(A)

¹⁰ love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.

⁷ Pay to all what is due them: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

⁵ In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders.^[a] And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for

Service Well-Pleasing to God

13 Let mutual affection continue.

³ Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.^(A)

²² Now that you have purified your souls^[a] by your obedience to the truth^[b] so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.^[c](A)

¹² “Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.^(A)

7 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.^(A)