Most of you will recall that at the moment we are studying together the words found in Paul's

Epistle to the Romans in Chapter 13, verses 8, 9 and 10, verses 8, 9 and 10 in the 13th chapter

of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.

O no man anything,

but to love one another.

For he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

For this,

thou shalt not commit adultery,

thou should not kill,

thou should not steal,

thou should not bear false witness,

thou should not covet.

And if there be any other commitment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor

as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law. Now, we began our treatment of these

three verses, this little subsection in this chapter last Friday night. And we try to show

there that here the apostle is summing up, as it were, what he began to say at the beginning of the 12th

chapter. The whole section, beginning at the first verse of the 12th chapter to the end of the

epistle, deals with the outworking of the great doctrine that he'd been laying down in the

previous 11 chapters. This is the practical portion of the epistle, the application of the doctrine.

But we were particularly anxious to show that it's the summing up of all that he says from

verse 3 in chapter 12 onwards. Verses one and two of that chapter, of course, a general introduction.

But he rarely comes down to these particulars, and we've been

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