For this, (A)Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet: and if there be any other commandment, it is [a]briefly comprehended in this saying, even in this, (B)Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

10 Love doeth not evil to his neighbor: therefore is love the (C)fulfilling of the Law.

11 [b]And that, considering the season, that it is now time that we should arise from sleep: for now is our salvation nearer, than when we believed it.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 13:9 For the whole Law commandeth nothing else, but that we love God and our neighbor. But seeing Paul speaketh here of the duties we owe one to another, we must restrain this word, Law to the second Table.
  2. Romans 13:11 An application taken of the circumstance of the time: which also itself putteth us in mind of our duty, seeing that this remaineth after that the darkness of ignorance and wicked affections by the knowledge of God’s truth be driven out of us, that we order our life according to that certain and sure rule of all righteousness and honesty, being fully grounded upon the virtue of the Spirit of Christ.

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