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]

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

¹⁴ “Never take advantage of poor and destitute laborers, whether they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns. ¹⁵ You must pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and are counting on it. If you don’t, they might cry out to the Lord against you, and it would be counted against you as sin.