Love Fulfills the Law

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Debt is burdensome and being obligated to another is a constant weight on one’s shoulders. But there is one great exception, according to the apostle Paul. That exception is the debt of love. As Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones notes in this sermon on Romans 13:8–10 titled “Love Fulfills the Law,” Paul calls the church to be perpetually obligated in their love for one another. Paul himself was likewise indebted to all: to the Greeks and Barbarians and both to the wise and the unwise. He had the medicine in the gospel that they needed and this meant he was under obligation to share it. Paul expects nothing less from the church. The church in Rome, as well as the church today, are in a constant state of debt to one another. But Dr. Lloyd-Jones warns that if one thinks love and law are at odds with one another, then they have misunderstood the Bible. It is an abuse of the law – by the Pharisees, moralists, and in legalism — that is at odds with Paul’s thoughts on law and love. The law begins with the negative, but God’s commandments ultimately have a positive effect. In other words, “love is the fulfilling of the law.” Listen as Dr. Lloyd-Jones provides insight into this beautiful synthesis of law and love.

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0:00.0	The words to which I would like to call your attention this evening
0:03.7	are to be found in that 13th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans
0:08.3	that we have read at the beginning, reading again verses 8, 9 and 10.
0:15.5	Verses 8, 9 and 10 in the 13th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
0:25.6	Oh, no men anything, but to love one another. For he that loveth another, hath fulfilled the law.
0:29.6	For this, thou should not commit adultery, thou should not kill,
0:33.6	thou should not steal, thou should not bear false witness, thou should not covet,
0:39.3	and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely,
0:45.3	thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
0:49.3	Love worketh no ill to his neighbor.
0:52.3	Therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
0:58.0	Now here this evening we come to a new subsection
1:01.0	in this 13th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
1:06.4	It's not only a new subsection of this chapter,
1:10.1	it is a new subsection of the two chapters,
1:14.9	12 and 13.
1:18.1	Let me remind you again that in this whole section of the epistles from the beginning
1:24.2	of the 12th chapter right to the end, the apostle is working out the practical application of the doctrine and the teaching that he had been laying down in the previous chapters.
1:35.0	And in these two chapters, 12 and 13, he is particularly concerned about the Christian in his relationship to other people, first of all to other Christians,
1:47.7	and then to people in general.
1:51.2	And as we've been seeing in the first seven verses, he has taken this up in terms of the relationship of the Christian to the state.
2:00.3	And the various ramifications of that and the various
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