Romans 13:4
Neutral key: nrf1:ROM.013.004
About the book Romans Trend of this verse since 2000
Which lectionaries prescribe this verse
Bible text
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
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Statistics
- 8 Verse-level uses Counting rule CR-BASE: every citation of this verse, also through a reference to its whole chapter.
- 8 Explicit citations Counting rule CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE, as in the Top 100: only citations that name this verse.
- #3,133 Rank Rank 3,133 of 19,199 verses with explicit citations; tied verses share a rank.
- mapped Mapping Position 28,395 in the sequence prot66.nrf, New Testament
8 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
- Killing
- Obeying authority
- Fighting back
- Submission to god
- Human rights
- Self defense
- Honoring leaders
- Warriors
- Morals
The strongest topics first, by the votes of the OpenBible.info readers.7 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: 6 occurrences
- losung.net: Losungen archive: 2 occurrences
Occurrences
8 approved public occurrences in the profile official@2, newest first.
- Date
- Sep 29, 2011
- Cited as
- Römer 13,4
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Donnerstag, 29. September 2011
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2011-09-29
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Aug 30, 2005
- Cited as
- Römer 13,4
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Dienstag, 30. August 2005
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2005-08-30
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1225 – Dec 31, 1274
- Cited as
- Romans 13:4
- 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, 1221 – Dec 31, 1274
- Cited as
- Romans 13:4
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Collationes de Decem Praeceptis, Collation
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Bonaventure
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 344 – Dec 31, 407
- Cited as
- Romans 13:4
- 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, 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, 125 – Dec 31, 207
- Cited as
- Romans 13:4
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Against Heresies Book V
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Irenaeus
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 125 – Dec 31, 207
- Cited as
- Romans 13:4
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Against Heresies Book V
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Irenaeus
- 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.
Live numbers are recomputed every 15 minutes and are provisional until a data release is frozen. This page shows no Bible text. How we count