Romans 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
KJV
Μηδενὶ μηδὲν ὀφείλετε, εἰ μὴ τὸ ἀλλήλους ἀγαπᾶν· ὁ γὰρ ἀγαπῶν τὸν ἕτερον νόμον πεπλήρωκεν.
Greek NT
Nemini quidquam debeatis, nisi ut invicem diligatis : qui enim diligit proximum, legem implevit.
Vulgate
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
ASV
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μηδείς
medeis
adjective · 92×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
πληρόω
pleroo
verb · 86×
ἀγαπάω
agapao
verb · 143×
ἀλλήλων
allelon
reciprocal_pronoun · 100×
ἕτερος
eteros
adjective · 99×
ὀφείλω
opheilo
verb · 35×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἀλλήλους ἀγαπᾶν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀλλήλους ἀγαπᾶν | RP: ἀγαπᾶν ἀλλήλους
- ἀλλήλους ἀγαπᾶν — SBLGNT
- ἀλλήλους ἀγαπᾶν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἀγαπᾶν ἀλλήλους — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 3 passages
§1824Fruit of the Spirit and fullness of the Law, charity keeps the commandments of God and his Christ: "Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love."99
§2196In response to the question about the first of the commandments, Jesus says: "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' the second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater…
§2845There is no limit or measure to this essentially divine forgiveness,146 whether one speaks of "sins" as in Luke (⇒ 11:4), "debts" as in Matthew (⇒ 6:12). We are always debtors: "Owe no one anything, except to love one another."147 The communion of the Holy Trinity is the source and criterion of truth in every relation ship. It is lived out in prayer, above all in th…
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. Calvin expounds the Christian's duty to civil government. The magistrate is God's minister — civil authority is ordained by God, and resistance to it is resistance to the ordinance of God. Yet Calvin carefully limits this: the magistrate's authority is not absolute but delegated, and obedience to God takes precedence. Love is th…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 9:21 — To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
- 1Cor 16:14 — Let all your things be done with charity.
- 1John 2:7 — Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
- 1Thess 3:12 — And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
- 1Tim 1:5 — Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
- 1Tim 1:5 — Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
- 2John 1:6 — And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
- Col 3:14 — And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
- Col 3:14 — And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
- Deut 24:14 — Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
- Gal 5:14 — For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Gal 5:14 — For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Gen 23:13 — And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead
- Jas 2:8 — If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- Jas 2:8 — If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- John 13:34 — A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
- Mark 12:31 — And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
- Matt 5:19 — Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be
- Matt 5:43 — Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
- Matt 7:12 — Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
- Matt 7:12 — Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
- Matt 19:18 — He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
- Matt 22:39 — And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Prov 3:27 — Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
- Rom 1:14 — I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
- Rom 3:31 — Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
- Rom 13:7 — Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
- Rom 13:10 — Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
- Rom 13:10 — Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
- Song 8:7 — Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.