Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.
“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.
But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.