What Is Due?

Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. ~ Romans 13:7

Is it yours? Do you have a greater right to it than anyone else? Did you use someone else’s idea and claim it was yours? Did you cut corners? What about the ticket for food and service with a suggested tip? Are you slighting someone if you don’t tip? I remember decades ago using money I had set aside in a college fund for a child when I was short of funds and overdrawn. I made it right but it wasn’t mine to spend. Paul was speaking along the line of Jesus’ words, render unto Caesar….” The word revenue certainly fits. But the meaning includes returning what you borrowed months or years ago. Where is the peace you need in instructions to give to everyone what you owe them?