8If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)The apostle, having condemned the sin of those who had an undue respect of persons, and having urged what was sufficient to convict them of the greatness of this evil, now proceeds to show how the matter may be mended; it is the work of a gospel ministry, not only to reprove and warn, but to teach and direct. Col. 1:28; Warning every man, and teaching every man . And here, I. We have the law that…
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