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Romans 13:10

Love doesn't hurt others. So loving is the same as obeying all the law.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Decalogue;   Law;   Love;   Neighbor;   Thompson Chain Reference - Duty;   Love;   Nation, the;   Neighbours, Duty to;   Preeminence;   Religion;   Religion, True-False;   Social Life;   True Religion;   The Topic Concordance - Law;   Love;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Law of God, the;   Love to Man;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Love;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Good works;   Law;   Love;   Mission;   Neighbour;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Envy;   Fullness;   Law;   Neighbor;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Justice;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Love;   Sabbath;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Brotherly Love;   Fulfill;   Law, Ten Commandments, Torah;   Love;   Neighbor;   Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament;   Romans, Book of;   Spiritual Gifts;   Torah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brotherly Love;   Christianity;   Law;   Perfection;   Pleroma;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherly Love;   Christian Life;   Fulfilment;   Fulness;   Fulness ;   Justice;   Law;   Liberty;   Neighbour;   Quotations;   Religion (2);   Soberness Sobriety;   Unity;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Interesting facts about the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Commandment;   Fulfil;   Fullness;   Law in the New Testament;   Love;   Pauline Theology;   Salvation;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for June 29;   Every Day Light - Devotion for June 1;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.
King James Version (1611)
Loue worketh no ill to his neighbour, therefore loue is the fulfilling of the Law.
King James Version
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
English Standard Version
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
New American Standard Bible
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.
New Century Version
Love never hurts a neighbor, so loving is obeying all the law.
Amplified Bible
Love does no wrong to a neighbor [it never hurts anyone]. Therefore [unselfish] love is the fulfillment of the Law.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Legacy Standard Bible
Love does not work evil against a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.
Berean Standard Bible
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Contemporary English Version
No one who loves others will harm them. So love is all that the Law demands.
Complete Jewish Bible
Love does not do harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fullness of Torah.
Darby Translation
Love works no ill to its neighbour; love therefore [is the] whole law.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Loue doeth not euill to his neighbour: therefore is loue the fulfilling of the Lawe.
George Lamsa Translation
Love does not work evil to his neighbor because love is the fulfillment of the law.
Good News Translation
If you love others, you will never do them wrong; to love, then, is to obey the whole Law.
Lexham English Bible
Love does not commit evil against a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Literal Translation
Love does not work evil to the neighbor. Then love is the fulfillment of Law.
American Standard Version
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.
Bible in Basic English
Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.
Hebrew Names Version
Love doesn't harm his neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
International Standard Version
Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.Matthew 22:40; Romans 13:8;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Love unto his neighbour evil worketh not: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Murdock Translation
Love doeth no evil to one's neighbor; because love is the fulfillment of the law.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Charitie worketh no yll to his neyghbour, therfore the fulfyllyng of the lawe is charitie.)
English Revised Version
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
World English Bible
Love doesn't harm his neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Love worketh no evil to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Weymouth's New Testament
Love avoids doing any wrong to one's fellow man, and is therefore complete obedience to Law.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The loue of neiybore worchith not yuel; therfor loue is the fulfillyng of the lawe.
Update Bible Version
Love works no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Webster's Bible Translation
Love worketh no ill to one's neighbor: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.
New English Translation
Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
New King James Version
Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
New Living Translation
Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God's law.
New Life Bible
Anyone who loves his neighbor will do no wrong to him. You keep the Law with love.
New Revised Standard
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Love, unto ones neighbour, worketh not ill; Law's fullness, therefore, is, love.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law.
Revised Standard Version
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Love hurteth not his neghbour. Therfore is love the fulfillynge of the lawe.
Young's Literal Translation
the love to the neighbor doth work no ill; the love, therefore, [is] the fulness of law.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Loue doth his neghboure no euell. Therfore is loue ye fulfillynge of the lawe.
Mace New Testament (1729)
thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self." the benevolent never does wrong to his neighbour: therefore benevolence is the fulfilling of the law.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Love doesn't wrong others and so it fulfills all God asked us to do.

Contextual Overview

7 Give everyone what you owe them. If you owe them any kind of tax, then pay it. Show respect to those you should respect. And show honor to those you should honor. 8 You should owe nothing to anyone, except that you will always owe love to each other. The person who loves others has done all that the law commands. 9 The law says, "You must not commit adultery, you must not murder anyone, you must not steal, you must not want what belongs to someone else." All these commands and all other commands are really only one rule: "Love your neighbor the same as you love yourself." 10 Love doesn't hurt others. So loving is the same as obeying all the law.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

worketh: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

love is: Romans 13:8, Matthew 22:40

Reciprocal: Psalms 15:3 - doeth Matthew 22:39 - Thou Luke 3:14 - Do violence to no man Romans 2:27 - if it fulfil Romans 14:15 - now 1 John 4:21 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:6
The woman could see that the tree was beautiful and the fruit looked so good to eat. She also liked the idea that it would make her wise. So she took some of the fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave him some of the fruit, and he ate it.
Genesis 13:1
So Abram left Egypt. He traveled through the Negev with his wife and everything he owned. Lot was also with them.
Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "There should be no arguing between you and me or between your people and my people. We are all brothers.
Genesis 13:10
Lot looked and saw the whole Jordan Valley. He saw that there was much water there. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. At that time the Jordan Valley all the way to Zoar was like the Lord 's Garden. This was good land, like the land of Egypt.)
Genesis 13:15
All this land that you see I will give to you and your people who live after you. This will be your land forever.
Genesis 13:16
I will make your people so many that they will be like the dust of the earth. If people could count all the particles of dust on earth, they could count your people.
Genesis 13:17
So go. Walk through your land. I now give it to you."
Genesis 14:2
All these kings fought a war against King Bera of Sodom: King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela. (Bela is also called Zoar.)
Genesis 14:8
At that time the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela (Zoar) joined together to fight against their enemies in the Valley of Siddim.
1 Kings 7:46
Solomon never weighed the bronze that was used to make these things. There was too much to weigh. So the total weight of all the bronze was never known. The king ordered these things to be made near the Jordan River between Succoth and Zarethan. They made them by melting the bronze and pouring it into molds in the ground.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour,.... That is, the man that truly loves his neighbour, will contrive no ill against him, nor do any to him; he will not injure his person, nor defile his bed, nor deprive or defraud him of his substance; or do hurt to his character, bear false testimony against him, or covet with an evil covetousness anything that is his; but, on the contrary, will do him all the good he is capable of:

therefore love is the fulfilling of the law: so far as a man loves his neighbour, he acts agreeably to the law, and the particular precepts of it above mentioned: what the apostle says of love to the neighbour, the Jews frequently say of love to God;

"he that loveth God (they say d) מקיים עשר אמירן, "hath fulfilled the decalogue", both above and below.''

And again e,

"there is no service like the love of God, R. Abba saith it is כללא דאורייתא, "the sum of the law"; for the ten words of the law הכא אתכלילו, "are herein comprehended", or "fulfilled":''

and elsewhere f they observe,

"that כל התורה כלולה באהבה, "the whole law is comprehended", or fulfilled "in love".''

d Zohar in Deut. fol. 111. 3. e Zohar in Deut. fol. 113. 1. f Moses Kotsensis Mitzvot Tora, praecept. affirm. 3. prope finem.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Love worketh no ill ... - Love would seek to do him good; of course it would prevent all dishonesty and crime toward others. It would prompt to justice, truth, and benevolence. If this law were engraved on every man’s heart, and practiced in his life, what a change would it immediately produce in society! If all people would at once “abandon” what is suited to “work ill” to others, what an influence would it have on the business and commercial affairs of people. How many plans of fraud and dishonesty would it at once arrest. How many schemes would it crush. It would silence the voice of the slanderer; it would stay the plans of the seducer and the adulterer; it would put an end to cheating, and fraud, and all schemes of dishonest gain. The gambler desires the property of his neighbor without any compensation; and thus works “ill” to him. The dealer in “lotteries” desires property for which he has never toiled, and which must be obtained at the expense and loss of others. And there are many “employments” all whose tendency is to work “ill” to a neighbor. This is pre-eminently true of the traffic in “ardent spirits.” It cannot do him good, and the almost uniform result is to deprive him of his property, health, reputation, peace, and domestic comfort. He that sells his neighbor liquid fire, knowing what must be the result of it, is not pursuing a business which works no ill to him; and love to that neighbor would prompt him to abandon the traffic; see Habakkuk 2:15, “Wo unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that putteth thy bottle to him, and makest him drink also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness.”

Therefore ... - “Because” love does no harm to another, it is “therefore” the fulfilling of the Law, implying that all that the Law requires is to “love” others.

Is the fulfilling - Is the “completion,” or meets the requirements of the Law. The Law of God on this “head,” or in regard to our duty to our neighbor, requires us to do justice toward him, to observe truth, etc. “All” this will be met by “love;” and if people truly “loved” others, all the demands of the Law would be satisfied.

Of the law - Of the Law of Moses, but particularly the Ten Commandments.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 13:10. Love worketh no ill — As he that loves another will act towards that person as, on a reverse of circumstances, he would that his neighbour should act towards him; therefore, this love can never work ill towards another: and, on this head, i.e. the duty we owe to our neighbour, love is the fulfilling of the law.


 
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