For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8–9. But that you love one another. This is a debt, says Saint John Chrysostom which we are always to be paying, and yet always remains, and is to be paid again.—He that loveth his neighbour, hath fulfilled the law. Nay, he that loves his neighbour, as he ought, loves him for God’s sake, and so complies with the other great precept of loving God: and upon these two precepts (as Christ himself taught us, Matthew 22:40) depends the whole law and the prophets. Witham.
TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,”