6. For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing.
7. Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
8. Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
9. 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.”
10. Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
11. Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.