12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you,(A) for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.(B)

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31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[a](A) There is no commandment greater than these.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 12:31 Lev. 19:18

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

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