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Love for One Another

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.(A)

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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)

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10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.(A)

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10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.(A)

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39 And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’(A) 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”(B)

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39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[a](A) 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:39 Lev. 19:18

14 For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”(A)

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14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[a](A)

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  1. Galatians 5:14 Lev. 19:18

The Golden Rule

12 “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.(A)

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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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27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,[a]
    when it is in your power to do it.(A)
28 Do not say to your neighbor, “Go and come again;
    tomorrow I will give it,” when you have it with you.(B)

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  1. 3.27 Heb from its owners

27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
    when it is in your power to act.
28 Do not say to your neighbor,
    “Come back tomorrow and I’ll give it to you”—
    when you already have it with you.(A)

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Pay to all what is due them: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

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Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes;(A) if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

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If you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.(A)

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If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[a](A) you are doing right.

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:8 Lev. 19:18

34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.(A)

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34 “A new command(A) I give you: Love one another.(B) As I have loved you, so you must love one another.(C)

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14 “You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of your towns.(A) 15 You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.(B)

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14 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.(A) 15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor(B) and are counting on it.(C) Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.(D)

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14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

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14 And over all these virtues put on love,(A) which binds them all together in perfect unity.(B)

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But the aim of such instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith.(A)

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The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart(A) and a good conscience(B) and a sincere faith.(C)

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