Galatians 5:14

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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WEBBE

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”

BSB

The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

KJV

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

ASV

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

BBE

For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

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ὁ ho (the) G3588 γὰρ gar For G1063 πᾶς pas the entire G3956 νόμος nomos Law G3551 ἐν en in G1722 ἑνὶ heni one G1520 λόγῳ logō word G3056 πεπλήρωται peplērōtai has been fulfilled G4137 ἐν en in G1722 τῷ tō this G3588 ἀγαπήσεις agapēseis You will love G25 τὸν ton the G3588 πλησίον plēsion neighbour G4139 σου sou of you G4771 ὡς hōs as G5613 σεαυτόν seauton yourself G4771

The early church

Seeing that they made so much of the Law, he says, "If you wish to fulfill it, do not be circumcised, for it is fulfilled not in circumcision but in love." Observe how he cannot forget his grief, but constantly touches upon what troubled him, even when launched into his moral discourse.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Galatians

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 13–15

The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness, 1Ti 6:3, and is so far from giving the least countenance to sin, that it lays us under the strongest obligation to avoid and subdue it. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. If Christians, who should help one another, and rejoice one another, quarrel, what can be expected but that the God of love should deny his grace, that the Spirit of love should depart, and the evil spirit, who seeks their destruction, should prevail? Happy would it be, if Christians, instead of biting and devouring one another on account of different opinions, would set themselves against sin in themselves, and in the places where they live.

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Leviticus 19:18Matthew 5:43Matthew 19:19Matthew 22:39Mark 12:31Mark 12:33Luke 10:27Romans 13:9James 2:8

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