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Pay your obligations(A) to everyone: taxes to those to whom you owe taxes,(B) tolls to those to whom you owe tolls, respect to those to whom you owe respect,(C) and honour to those to whom you owe honour.

Love, Our Primary Duty

Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.(D) The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal;[a] do not covet;[b](E) and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbour as yourself.[c](F)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:9 Other mss add do not bear false witness
  2. 13:9 Ex 20:13–17; Dt 5:17–21
  3. 13:9 Lv 19:18