Romans 13:8
6 This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.
7 Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
9 The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
10 Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
- KJV
- Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
- WEB
- Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
- ASV
- Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
- DARBY
- Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.
- BLB
- Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one loving the other has fulfilled the law.
- ÅB
- Bli ingen noe skyldige, unntatt det å elske hverandre! For den som elsker den andre, har oppfylt loven.
- OTB
- La ingen gjeld være utestående, bortsett fra den vedvarende gjelden å elske hverandre; for den som elsker andre har oppfylt loven.
- B1930
- Bli ingen noget skyldige, uten det å elske hverandre! for den som elsker den annen, har opfylt loven.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 13:10
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Read in contextMatthew 22:39–40
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Read in contextGalatians 5:14
The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Read in contextMatthew 7:12
In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
Read in contextProverbs 3:27–28
Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
Read in contextJohn 13:34
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
Read in contextRomans 13:7
Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
Read in contextJames 2:8
If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
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