8Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.
- Romans 13:8
I never really thought of love as a debt before. For me there are two cases - loving those who are easy to love such as friends, family etc. and loving those who I have no natural inclination towards loving, those whom the bible characterises as being 'enemies'. In the first case the love could be considered a debt, e.g. they have treated me well and earned my love. But what about the second group? How is my loving them a 'continuing debt'? Perhaps because God has commanded it in the same way that a judge might order someone to pay someone else money and that then becomes a debt.
On a side issue - does this verse prohibit mortgages?
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