³⁶ ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’

³⁷ Jesus replied: ‘“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”^{[a] 38} This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: “Love your neighbour as yourself.”^{[b] 40} All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.’

Love fulfils the law

⁸ Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. ⁹ The commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not covet,’^[a] and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’^{[b] 10} Love does no harm to a neighbour. Therefore love is the fulfilment of the law.