Scriptural Love

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Vestiges of the Christian call to “love one’s neighbor” can be found throughout Western culture. What has been lost, however, is the Scriptural understanding of love and a strong theological foundation to support the command. Without Scripture and theology, love of neighbor is either reduced to sentimentality or the gospel is denied. The seriousness of the latter is highlighted in this sermon on Romans 13:8–10 titled “Scriptural Love.” Modern teaching claims sinful people are able to fulfill this important command despite the fact that they have not experienced regeneration. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones examines both Scripture and culture, arguing that a biblical view of self and neighbor is necessary to understand Paul’s words correctly. This also answers one of the fundamental questions Christians ask: what is the Christian relationship to the law? Be warned against the trap of mysticism with its emphasis on mere contemplation of love and also watch out for rigorism with its emphasis on the merely knowing the letter of the law. Rather than falling into mysticism or rigorism, Dr. Lloyd-Jones argues for both the letter and the spirit of the law. Listen closely as he argues for a balanced approach to the law and seeks to challenge contemporary views of love of the neighbor.

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0:00.0	We continue our study of verses 8, 9 and 10 in the 13th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the
0:07.0	Romans.
0:08.0	Verses 8, 9 and 10 in the 13th chapter.
0:12.0	Oh, no men anything except to love one another.
0:16.0	For he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
0:24.6	For this, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou should not kill,
0:28.0	thou should not steal, thou should not bear false witness,
0:29.1	thou should not covet.
0:30.7	And if there be any other commitment,
0:33.6	it is briefly comprehended in this saying,
0:38.2	namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
0:42.1	Love worketh no ill to his neighbor.
0:45.9	Therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
0:50.5	Now, we've been expounding the connection of this with what's gone before,
0:56.3	and our suggestion is that the apostle is summing up here all these various injunctions that he's been giving us from the beginning of the 12th chapter.
1:01.0	He's gone into details, but he's summing it up again, and he's enforcing, as he did,
1:05.4	even as he introduced the subject, this great principle of love.
1:12.6	And what we're doing at the moment is this.
1:19.4	We are dealing with this statement in the ninth verse, where the apostle says that all the commandments are briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
1:27.6	We've seen that that's a quotation from the book of Loveticus,
1:31.2	that it was something that was repeated more than once by our blessed Lord and Savior,
1:36.4	and by this apostle and by James in the teaching.
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