Romans 13:3
Neutral key: nrf1:ROM.013.003
About the book Romans Trend of this verse since 2000
Which lectionaries prescribe this verse
Bible text
For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority,
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Statistics
- 5 Verse-level uses Counting rule CR-BASE: every citation of this verse, also through a reference to its whole chapter.
- 5 Explicit citations Counting rule CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE, as in the Top 100: only citations that name this verse.
- #5,859 Rank Rank 5,859 of 19,199 verses with explicit citations; tied verses share a rank.
- mapped Mapping Position 28,394 in the sequence prot66.nrf, New Testament
5 of the verse-level uses are a lower bound (repetitions not known exactly).
Persons in this verse
No person of the Bible is linked to this verse yet.
Topics of this verse
- Immigration
- Obeying authority
- Submission to god
- Human rights
- Honoring leaders
- Morals
- Respecting your parents
- Morality
- Employees
- Warriors
The strongest topics first, by the votes of the OpenBible.info readers.2 more topics are not shown.
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Numbering in the versification systems
Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse unit has the following labels (mapping release R8); labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.
Sources that cite this verse
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations: 5 occurrences
Occurrences
5 approved public occurrences in the profile official@2, newest first.
- Date
- Jan 1, 1225 – Dec 31, 1274
- Cited as
- Romans 13:3
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Romans
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Thomas Aquinas
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 344 – Dec 31, 407
- Cited as
- Romans 13:3
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Homily on Romans
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- John Chrysostom
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 195 – Dec 31, 258
- Cited as
- Romans 13:3
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Cyprian
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 179 – Dec 31, 254
- Cited as
- Romans 13:3-4
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Origen of Alexandria
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 145 – Dec 31, 220
- Cited as
- Romans 13:3
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, The Instructor Book
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Clement of Alexandria
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
How this was computed: rule CR-BASE@1 / CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE@1, profile official@2, epoch 100
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – verse-level uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – explicit citations (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank - Profile
- The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- Epoch
- 100, published Nov 4, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC (provisional)
- Sequence
prot66.nrf, mapping release R8- Rank
- As in the Top 100: explicit citations, highest first, over the verses with at least one; tied verses share a rank.
- Occurrences
- Approved public occurrences of the profile shown, with at least one passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.
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