Post by clarkthompson on May 2, 2014 1:42:15 GMT
Romans 13:8-10
KJV(i) 8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:8-10
Living Bible (TLB)
8 Pay all your debts except the debt of love for others—never finish paying that! For if you love them, you will be obeying all of God’s laws, fulfilling all his requirements. 9 If you love your neighbor as much as you love yourself you will not want to harm or cheat him, or kill him or steal from him. And you won’t sin with his wife or want what is his, or do anything else the Ten Commandments say is wrong. All ten are wrapped up in this one, to love your neighbor as you love yourself. 10 Love does no wrong to anyone. That’s why it fully satisfies all of God’s requirements. It is the only law you need.
Living Bible (TLB)
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These are my thoughts, please share yours.
8 We should do our best not to be in debt and to owe nothing to anyone, this does not mean we will refuse gifts but means we will not be burden by them. To owe someone something can be a burden and this is a burden we should avoid. Now in today’s world one has to great loans to buy things but we should do our best to pay these loans off as soon as we can and never take on more loans than we can handle. As Christians we should not look for payback for the good things we do but only do them out of love and not do them because of what we can get in return by doing this you are only thinking about you, you with this mind frame help so you can gain. We should help out of love. I glad Christ does not expect us to pay Him back for all He had done for us because I could not come close even if He gave me all the time in the world.
9 If we love our neighbor or anyone we come in contact with we will not wrong them. Now we are not perfect so we will fall to the flesh at times. If we love our neighbor we will not only wrong them but help them. Jesus loved us His neighbor and died for us.
10 Thru love we will not wrong our neighbor and will treat them as Christ would, we will not be perfect at this and this does not mean we will support everything they do because Christ did not support everything people did and He will judge sins, we are to share the scripture with people who are not living for Him, this may seem mean but letting them go to hell is not an act of love.
