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Love Fulfills the Law - Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” ...
Sep 27, 2008 · Learn how Jesus summarized the essence and priority of all human relationships in terms of love to God and love to people. Explore the biblical basis, meaning, and application of the law of love in Christian character and life.
Jun 27, 2023 · Paul illuminates the truth that love is at the core of the law. The love command—“love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18)—is at the heart of the law of Christ: “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2; see also 1 Corinthians 9:20–21).
Feb 10, 2023 · The phrase “the law of love,” gets at this close relationship. When Jesus spoke to his disciples in the upper room before he was arrested and crucified, he said, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another” (John 13:34).
Feb 27, 2000 · The love and joy and peace that we experience are something the Spirit produces. They are his fruit. So in all four of these ways (Galatians 5:5, 16, 18, 22) of saying it, the point is that the Spirit is the source of our behavior that sustains and shapes what we do.
--Faith in Christ, the devoted attachment to Christ, is the great motive power, the source or mainspring of action; and the law by which that action is regulated is the law of love. (Comp. Galatians 5:13-14 below, and Romans 13:8-10.) Faith makes a man seek to do the will of Christ; love tells him what that will is.
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
