Paul could have listed every commandment. Instead he named four from the second table — adultery, murder, stealing, coveting — and then said they are “all summed up” in one sentence from Leviticus 19:18: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
That is Romans 13:9-10. It does not make the commandments optional; it shows what they were always about. A person who truly loves a neighbor will not take his life, his marriage, his property, or his good name — and will not even want to.
Jesus said the same thing when he summed up the whole law in two commandments (Matthew 22:37-40): love God, and love your neighbor.
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