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Pay Your Ongoing Debt of Love

Be owing[a] nothing to anyone except to be loving one another. For the one loving the other has fulfilled the Law. For the saying “You shall not commit-adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet” [Ex 20:13-17], and if there is any other commandment, is summed-up in this saying— in the “You shall love your neighbor as yourself ” [Lev 19:18]. 10 Love does not work harm[b] to the neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 13:8 The owing and the loving refer to the same person or people. Paul is referring here to our personal relations with individuals.
  2. Romans 13:10 Or, evil, civil or personal.

Love Fulfills the Law

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.(A) The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”[a](B) and whatever other command there may be, are summed up(C) in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b](D) 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 13:9 Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21
  2. Romans 13:9 Lev. 19:18