Love Your Neighbor

Love Your Neighbor

8   a   Command                                  Owe no one anything

     b   Qualification                                   except to love one another,

     c   Reason                                                 for ^ghe who loves another has fulfilled the law.

9   a   Enumeration                                             For the commandments,

     b   List-Item                                                        ^h“You shall not commit adultery,”

     c   List-Item                                                        “You shall not murder,”

     d   List-Item                                                        “You shall not steal,” ²“You shall not bear false witness,”

     e   List-Item                                                        “You shall not covet,”

     f    Condition (g)                                                       and if there is any other commandment,

     g   Implication                                                     are all summed up in this saying,

     h   Quotation                                                            namely, ⁱ“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

10 a   Affirmation                                Love does no harm to a neighbor;

     b   Inference                                    therefore ^jlove is the fulfillment of the law. (Romans 13:8-10) ^[1]

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^g [Matt. 7:12; 22:39; John 13:34; Rom. 13:10; Gal. 5:13, 14; 1 Tim. 1:5; James 2:8]

^h Ex. 20:13–17; Deut. 5:17–21; Matt. 19:18

² NU omits “You shall not bear false witness,”

ⁱ Lev. 19:18; Mark 12:31; James 2:8

^j [Matt. 7:12; 22:39, 40; John 13:34]; Rom. 13:8; Gal. 5:14; James 2:8

^[1] The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982. Print.