Love Fulfills God’s Requirements

⁸ Owe nothing to anyone—except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law.

¹⁰ Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God’s law.

³⁹ A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^{[a] 40} The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”

¹⁴ For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”^[a]

The Golden Rule

¹² “Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.

⁷ Give to everyone what you owe them: Pay your taxes and government fees to those who collect them, and give respect and honor to those who are in authority.

⁸ Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”^[a]

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

³⁴ So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.