Love doesn’t harm a neighbour. Love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.
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Romans · Romans 13
Romans 13:10
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9For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”
Romans 13:10
Love doesn’t harm a neighbour. Love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.
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11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
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- Song of Solomon 8:7Shares a themeMany waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.Shared with Love
- John 13:34-35Shares a themeA new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”Shared with Love
- John 15:13Shares a themeGreater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.Shared with Love
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7Shares a themeLove is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.Shared with Love
- 1 Peter 4:8Shares a themeAnd above all things be earnest in your love amongst yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.Shared with Love
- Romans 8:38-39Shares a themeFor I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Shared with Love