Romans 13:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἡ ἀγάπη τῷ πλησίον κακὸν οὐκ ἐργάζεται: πλήρωμα οὖν νόμου ἡ ἀγάπη.

Transliteration

The agapē to the plēsion kakon not ergazetai: plērōma oun nomou the agapē.

Grammar Details

*agapē*: nominative, feminine, singular - love
*plēsion*: dative, masculine, singular - neighbor
*kakon*: accusative, neuter, singular - evil/harm
*ergazetai*: present middle/passive indicative, 3rd singular - works/does
*plērōma*: nominative, neuter, singular - fulfillment/fullness
*oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore/then
*nomou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of law

Word Meanings

*agapē*: love/charity
*plēsion*: neighbor/fellow man
*kakon*: evil/harm/wrong/injury
*ergazetai*: works/does/performs/produces
*plērōma*: fulfillment/fullness/completion

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Rom 13:8 : 8 Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
Matt 22:39-40 : 39 And a second like [unto it] is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.
1 Cor 13:4-7 : 4 Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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