Romans 13:10 (WEB)
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Catechism · 3
The Virtues
“If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 15:9-10; cf. Mt 22:40; Rom 13:8-10.
The Ten Commandments
“Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.” — Catechism footnote: Rom 13:9-10.
You Shall Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
“…are summed up in this sentence, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."” — Catechism footnote: Rom 13:8-10.
Fathers and councils · 25
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And Paul in like manner declares, “Love is the fulfilling of the law:” and [he declares] that when all other things have been destroyed, there shall remain “faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of all is love;” and that apart…” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“By neighbour we must understand every man: for that there is no one with whom we should work evil; “and the love of our neighbour worketh no evil.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“And He was exalted above the fulness of knowledge, that no man should come to Him but by love: for “love is the fulfilling of the law.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Thou hast the means of fulfilling it: “The fulness of the Law is love.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“The meaning of this verse, if we are to expound it, appears to me this, that all our good works are one work of love: for love is the fulfilling of the Law.” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“What followeth then?” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“That law therefore should be understood, of which the Apostle saith, “Love is the fulfilling of the law.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“But they who have not love may carry the psaltery, sing they cannot.” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment““For he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law,” saith the apostle: and, “Charity is the fulfilling of the law.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 8, 10.
Read the whole comment“What meaneth, “On the end”?—“For Christ is the end of the law unto every one that believeth.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“And furthermore, this is with the intent that, inasmuch as charity is “the end of the commandment,” and “the fulfilling of the law,” we also may love one another and lay down our life for the brethren, even as He laid down His life for us.” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10
Read the whole comment“Neither let schismatics promise themselves anything of that reward; for similarly, where there is no love, there cannot be righteousness, for “love worketh no ill to his neighbour;” and if they had it, they would not tear in pieces Christ’s body, which is the Church.” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“And this passage we are to understand in such a way as to learn from it that all our works are pure and well-pleasing in the sight of God, when they are done with a single heart, i.e. with a heavenly intent, having that end of love in view; for love is also the fulfilling of the law.” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Ask the Apostle, “Charity is the fulfilling of the Law.” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“And “love,” as he elsewhere says, “worketh no evil.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Charity, that is, love, not of money, but of God; love, not of earth nor of heaven, but of Him who made Heaven and earth.” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“But let us ponder the words of the same apostle: “Love is the fullness of the law.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
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John Chrysostom
““For love is the fulfilling of the law.” ( Rom. xiii. 10.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And, “Love is the fulfilling of the Law.” ( Rom. xiii. 10.)” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“The fame of our condition has travelled to the ends of the earth, and you are not ignorant of it; nor are you without sympathy with brethren of like mind with yourselves, for you are disciples of the apostle, who teaches us that love for our neighbour is the fulfilling of the law.” — editor's note: cf. Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Again, the apostle clearly sets before us the good of charity where he tells us that love is the fulfilling of the law; and again where he says that charity is a good thing to be preferred to all great and good things, in the words, “Though I speak with tongues of men and of…” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
Read the whole comment“What is so goodly and honourable before God and men as perfect love, which, as we are told by the wise teacher, is the fulfilling of the law?” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Christ., i, 30; see Rom 13:10: It is clear that every man is to be regarded as a neighbour, because evil is to be done to no man.” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“But the cavillers did not know even this, as the apostle says, “that he who loveth his brother worketh not evil;” for this, “Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal; and if there be any other commandment, it is comprehended in the word, Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 8–10.
Read the whole comment“Whose “love worketh no ill to his neighbour,” neither injuring nor revenging ever, but, in a word, doing good to all according to the image of God.” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 10.
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Cross-references · 34
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 83.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.17.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 4.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 4.
Cited together in Catechism §2055.
Cited together in Catechism §2055.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:34–40 (4) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.13.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:34–40 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:34–40 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §2055 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §2055 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §2055 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §2055 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1824 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Catechism §1824.
Cited together in Catechism §1824.