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7 aRender therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.  

Love Your Neighbor

8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for ahe who loves another has fulfilled the law.  
9 For the commandments, a“You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”1 “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, b“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  
10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore alove is the fulfillment of the law.  

Put on Christ

11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time ato awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.  
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. aTherefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and blet us put on the armor of light.  
13 aLet us walk1 properly, as in the day, bnot in revelry and drunkenness, cnot in lewdness and lust, dnot in strife and envy.  
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Romans 13:9

For this (to gar). For the article (to) pointing to a sentence see Romans 8:26, here to the quotation. The order of the commandments here is like that in Luke 18:20; James 2:11 and in B for Deu. 5, but different from that of the Hebrew in Exo. 20; Deu. 5. The use of ou with the volitive future in prohibitions in place of mh and the imperative or subjunctive is a regular Greek idiom.

And if there be any other (kai ei tiv etera). Paul does not attempt to give them all.

It is summed up (anakefalaioutai). Present passive indicative of anakefalaiow, late literary word or "rhetorical term" (ana, kefalaion, head or chief as in Hebrews 8:1). Not in the papyri, but kefalaion, quite common for sum or summary. In N.T. only here and Ephesians 1:10.

Namely (en tw). See to gar at the beginning of the verse, though omitted by B F. The quotation is from Leviticus 19:18. Quoted in Matthew 5:43; Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Galatians 5:14; James 2:8 it is called basilikov nomov (royal law).

Thy neighbour (ton plhsion sou). Plhsion is an adverb and with the article it means "the one near thee." See on Matthew 5:43.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Romans 13:9:

Ephesians 1:10
1 Timothy 1:5
James 2:11
1 John 3:10

 

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