Owe no one any thing, but to love one another…” Romans 13:8 (a)
Implications:
We are to avoid indebtedness; we must pay or render whatever we owe. Debt is an obligation, not an option.
Love is a debt. Debt is an obligation, not an option. We are therefore obligated to love one another; we may not choose to decline.
Paul’s instructions are written to the Christians in Rome in response to questions arising about the relationship between Christ’s saints – a new reality for that generation – and the civil government of a pagan kingdom. But those instructions are applicable to everyone who falls into the definition of “every soul” in verse one.
In 13:1, Paul says that “every soul” should subject themselves those in superior jurisdictions, which jurisdictions are determined and assigned by...
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