# Connecting Statement:

Paul tells believers how to act toward neighbors.

# Owe no one anything, except to love one another

This is a double negative. You can translate it in a positive form. AT: "Pay all you owe to everyone, and love one another" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublenegatives]])

# Owe

This verb is plural and applies to all the Roman Christians. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-you]])

# except to love one another

This is the one debt that can remain as shown in the note above.

# love

This refers to the kind of love that comes from God and focuses on the good of others, even when it does not benefit oneself.

# covet

to desire to have or possess something that another person possesses.

# Love does not harm one's neighbor

This phrase portrays love as a person who is being kind to other people. AT: "People who love their neighbors do not harm them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])