Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
“You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns. You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
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