Pay your obligations to everyone: taxes to those you owe taxes, tolls to those you owe tolls, respect to those you owe respect, and honor to those you owe honor.

Pleasing Others, Not Ourselves

Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves.

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because an obligation is placed on me. And woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.

But I didn’t want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be out of obligation, but of your own free will.