Romans 13:8

WEB

⁸Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

KJV

⁸Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

BSB

⁸Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

FBV

⁸Don't owe anybody anything, except love for one another—for those who love their neighbor have kept the law.

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Extra References

Romans 13:10

¹⁰Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Matthew 22:39-40

³⁹A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’⁴⁰The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

Galatians 5:14

¹⁴For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 7:12

¹²Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

²⁷Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. ²⁸Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

John 13:34

³⁴A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

Romans 13:7

⁷Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

James 2:8

⁸However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”you do well.

Colossians 3:14

¹⁴Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Deuteronomy 24:14-15

¹⁴You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates. ¹⁵In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it, for he is poor and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.