What is the Law of Love?

• A. The Ten Commandments as written.
• B. A secular moral code.
• C. Jesus' summary of the moral law: love God and love your neighbor as yourself.
• D. Legal statutes from Caesar.

Answer: (C)

The Law of Love is Jesus’ concise summary of how moral life is lived: love God with all your being and love your neighbor as yourself. This single principle underlies and fulfills the entire moral tradition because true obedience flows from relationship, not mere rule-keeping. When love governs actions, the aims of the Ten Commandments are realized—loving God rightly leads to honoring Him, and loving others leads to treating people with care, justice, and self-giving mercy. It isn’t a secular code or Caesar’s statutes; it’s relational and transformative, rooted in God’s own love and enacted in Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. So the Law of Love compels believers to pursue God wholeheartedly and to seek the good of others, embodying that selfless love in everyday choices.