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Love Fulfills the Law

Romans 13:10

In 9 translations

BSB
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
KJV
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
WEB
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
ASV
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.
LSV
the love to the neighbor works no ill; the love, therefore, [is] the fullness of law.
YLT
the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, [is] the fulness of law.
DBY
Love works no ill to its neighbour; love therefore [is the] whole law.
DRC
The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law.
GNV
Loue doeth not euill to his neighbour: therefore is loue the fulfilling of the Lawe.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ἡ ἀγάπη τῷ πλησίον κακὸν οὐκ ἐργάζεται· πλήρωμα οὖν νόμου ἡ ἀγάπη.
RP2018
Ἡ ἀγάπη τῷ πλησίον κακὸν οὐκ ἐργάζεται· πλήρωμα οὖν νόμου ἡ ἀγάπη.
TR-Boyd
Ἡ ἀγάπη τῷ πλησίον κακὸν οὐκ ἐργάζεται· πλήρωμα οὖν νόμου ἡ ἀγάπη.
SCR1894
η αγαπη τω πλησιον κακον ουκ εργαζεται πληρωμα ουν νομου η αγαπη

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Romans 13:8Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
  • Matthew 22:39–40And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
  • 1 Corinthians 13:4–7Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but…

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