Fulfilling the Law Through Love

8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for ^athe one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, ^b“You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: ^c“You shall ^dlove your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the ^efulfilling of the law.

8 If you really fulfill the ^broyal law according to the Scripture, ^c“You shall ^dlove your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

10 For whoever keeps the ^ewhole law but ^ffails in one point has become guilty of all of it. 11 For he who said, ^g“Do not commit adultery,” also said, ^h“Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the ⁱlaw of liberty.

10 For whoever keeps the ^ewhole law but ^ffails in one point has become guilty of all of it. 11 For he who said, ^g“Do not commit adultery,” also said, ^h“Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Christ Came to Fulfill the Law

17 “Do not think that I have come to ^uabolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to ^vfulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, ^wnot an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes ^xone of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called ^yleast in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

31 ^kDo we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.