Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 13:9
9. For Implying that the term law finds its standard expression in the decalogue, as the due performance of the decalogue requires, as its source and spring, love in the heart. Right doing, as a permanent life, can only flow from right feeling. Thou shalt not The negative form forbids every possible course but the right one, and so hems us in to the right. It is implied by this negative form that the directions toward wrong are innumerable, and man’s impulses toward them as countless. ... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 13:8-14
4. Duties to our living contemporaries , Romans 13:8-14 . All are comprehended under love, (8-10,) under pressure of the most solemn Christian motives requiring of us perfect purity of life, (11-14.) read more