Roma 13:9

Filipino Cebuano Bible

9 Ang mga sugo nga nagaingon, "Ayaw pagpanapaw, Ayaw pagpatay, Ayaw pagpangawat, Ayaw pagkaibog," ug ang bisan unsa pa nga sugo, kini nalangkob niining mga pulonga nga nagaingon, "Higugmaa ang imong silingan ingon nga imong kaugalingon."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For this: Exodus 20:12-17, Deuteronomy 5:16-21, Matthew 19:18, Matthew 19:19, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20

covet: Romans 7:7, Romans 7:8

love: Leviticus 19:18, Leviticus 19:34, Matthew 22:39, Mark 12:31, Luke 10:27, Galatians 5:13, James 2:8-10

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:8 - how then Exodus 20:13 - General Deuteronomy 5:19 - General Deuteronomy 5:21 - General Matthew 22:40 - General Luke 3:14 - Do violence to no man James 2:11 - Do not commit 1 John 4:21 - General 2 John 1:6 - this is love

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For this, thou shalt not commit adultery,.... The apostle here reckons up the several laws of the second table, with this view, that it might appear that so far as a man loves his neighbour, whether more near or distantly related, he fulfils the law, or acts according to it. He omits the first of these, the fifth commandment, either because he had urged this before, so far as it may be thought to regard magistrates; or because, according to the division of the Jews, who reckon five commands to each table, this belonged to the first: and he puts the seventh before the sixth, which is of no great moment; the order of things being frequently changed in the Scripture, and which is often done by Jewish writers, in alleging and citing passages of Scripture; and with whom this is a maxim,

אין מוקדם ומאוחר בתורה, "that there is no first nor last in the law" c; that is, it is of no importance which stands first or last in it: it follows,

thou shall not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet; which are the sixth, eighth, ninth, and tenth commands of the decalogue, Exodus 20:13:

and if there be any other commandment; of God, respecting the neighbour, either in the decalogue, as there was the fifth,

Exodus 20:12, or elsewhere, the apostle repeating this by memory:

it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself; see Leviticus 19:18; this is the summary and epitome of them; so Christ reduces the laws of the first table to the head of love to God, and those of the second to the head of love to the neighbour, Matthew 22:37, as the apostle does here, and in Galatians 5:14, and the Apostle James, in James 2:8.

c T. Bab. Pesachim, fol. 6. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For this - “This” which follows is the sum of the laws. “This” is to regulate us in our conduct toward our neighbor. The word “this” here stands opposed to “that” in Romans 13:11. This law of love would prompt us to seek our neighbor’s good; “that” fact, that our salvation is near, would prompt us to be active and faithful in the discharge of all the duties we owe to him.

Thou shalt not commit adultery - All the commands which follow are designed as an illustration of the duty of loving our neighbor; see these commands considered in the notes at Matthew 19:18-19. The apostle has not enumerated “all” the commands of the second table. He has shown generally what they required. The command to honor our parents he has omitted. The reason might have been that it was not so immediately to his purpose when discoursing of love to a “neighbor” - a word which does not immediately suggest the idea of near relatives. The expression, “Thou shalt not bear false witness,” is rejected by the best critics as of doubtful authority, but it does not materially affect the spirit of the passage. It is missing in many manuscripts and in the Syriac version.

If there be any other commandment - The law respecting parents; or if there be any duty which does not seem to be “specified” by these laws, it is implied in the command to love our neighbor as ourselves.

It is briefly comprehended - Greek, It may be reduced to “this head;” or it is summed up in this.

In this saying - This word, or command,

Thou shalt love ... - This is found in Leviticus 19:18. See it considered in the notes at Matthew 19:19. If this command were fulfilled, it would prevent all fraud, injustice, oppression, falsehood, adultery, murder, theft, and covetousness. It is the same as our Saviour’s golden rule. And if every man would do to others as he would wish them to do to him, all the design of the Law would be at once fulfilled.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 13:9. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery — He that loves another will not deprive him of his wife, of his life, of his property, of his good name; and will not even permit a desire to enter into his heart which would lead him to wish to possess any thing that is the property of another: for the law-the sacred Scripture, has said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

It is remarkable that ου ψευδομαρτυρησεις, thou shalt not bear false witness, is wanting here in ABDEFG, and several other MSS. Griesbach has left it out of the text. It is wanting also in the Syriac, and in several of the primitive fathers. The generality of the best critics think it a spurious reading.