Romans 13:10
New International 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.

English Standard Version
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Berean Standard Bible
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Berean Literal Bible
Love does not do evil to its neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.

King James Bible
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

New King James Version
Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

New American Standard Bible
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.

NASB 1995
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

NASB 1977
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; love therefore 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.

Amplified Bible
Love does no wrong to a neighbor [it never hurts anyone]. Therefore [unselfish] love is the fulfillment of the Law.

Christian Standard Bible
Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.

American Standard Version
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Love does not commit evil against its neighbor, because love is the fulfillment of The Written Law.

Contemporary English Version
No one who loves others will harm them. So love is all that the Law demands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law.

English Revised Version
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Love never does anything that is harmful to a neighbor. Therefore, love fulfills Moses' Teachings.

Good News Translation
If you love others, you will never do them wrong; to love, then, is to obey the whole Law.

International Standard Version
Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.

Literal Standard Version
the love to the neighbor works no ill; the love, therefore, [is] the fullness of law.

Majority Standard Bible
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

New American Bible
Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.

NET Bible
Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

New Revised Standard Version
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

New Heart English Bible
Love does not harm a 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.

Weymouth New Testament
Love avoids doing any wrong to one's fellow man, and is therefore complete obedience to Law.

World English Bible
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Young's Literal Translation
the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, is the fulness of law.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Love Fulfills the Law
9The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. 11And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.…

Cross References
Matthew 7:12
In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 22:39
And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

John 13:34
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

Romans 13:8
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Galatians 5:14
The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

James 2:8
If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.


Treasury of Scripture

Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

worketh.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, …

love is.

Romans 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Matthew 22:40
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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Romans 13
1. Subjection, and many other duties, we owe to the authorities.
8. Love is the fulfillment of the law.
11. The acts of darkness are out of season in the time of the Gospel.














(10) Fulfilling of the law.--The form of the Greek word implies not only that love helps a man to fulfil the law, but that in the fact of the presence of love in his heart the law is actually fulfilled.

The principle here stated is beautifully worked out in 1Corinthians 13:4-7.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Love
ἀγάπη (agapē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast.

does no wrong
κακὸν (kakon)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 2556: Bad, evil, in the widest sense. Apparently a primary word; worthless, i.e. depraved, or injurious.

to [its]
τῷ (tō)
Article - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

neighbor.
πλησίον (plēsion)
Adverb
Strong's 4139: Near, nearby, a neighbor. Neuter of a derivative of pelas; close by; as noun, a neighbor, i.e. Fellow.

Therefore
οὖν (oun)
Conjunction
Strong's 3767: Therefore, then. Apparently a primary word; certainly, or accordingly.

love [is]
ἀγάπη (agapē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast.

[the] fulfillment
πλήρωμα (plērōma)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4138: From pleroo; repletion or completion, i.e. what fills, or what is filled.

of [the] Law.
νόμου (nomou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively.


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