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# Connecting Statement:
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Paul tells believers how to act toward neighbors.
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# Owe no one anything, except to love one another
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This is a double negative. You can translate it in a positive form. Alternate translation: "Pay all you owe to everyone, and love one another" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublenegatives]])
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# Owe
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This verb is plural and applies to all the Roman Christians. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-you]])
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# except to love one another
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This is the one debt that can remain, as shown in the note above.
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# love
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The kind of love that comes from God is focused on having good things happen to others even when those good things do not happen to the one who loves.
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