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The law says, “You must not be guilty of adultery. You must not murder anyone. You must not steal. You must not want to take your neighbor’s things.”[a] All these commands and all others are really only one rule: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”[b] 10 Love never hurts a neighbor, so loving is obeying all the law.

11 Do this because we live in an important time. It is now time for you to wake up from your sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:9 “You . . . things.” Quotation from Exodus 20:13–15, 17.
  2. 13:9 “Love . . . yourself.” Quotation from Leviticus 19:18.

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