'Themselves' in the Bible

In the same way, their males also abandoned their natural sexual function toward females and burned with lust toward one another. Males committed indecent acts with males, and received within themselves the appropriate penalty for their perversion.

For whenever gentiles, who do not possess the Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the Law.

so that whoever resists the authorities opposes what God has established, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

This is also why you pay taxes. For rulers are God's servants faithfully devoting themselves to their work.