Origen of Alexandria: Is love your only unpaid debt?

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“Let your only debt that is unpaid be that of love–a debt which you should always be attempting to discharge in full, but will never succeed in discharging. [cf. Romans 13:8-10]”

Origen of Alexandria (182-254), Christian theologian and Church Father, as recounted by Douglas J. Moo in Romans, NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000) 433.