Bible study: "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another"

The love of Jesus is not the love that comes from concupiscence but from the spirit: "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law", Romans 13:8.
The love that comes from the flesh and the nature of the world is love for oneself; the other, the neighbor, does not matter.
Instead the love that comes from the spirit is an infused love: "And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us." Romans 5:5

In the Christian faith this love is not received in baptism, but in the realization of hope: "When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might received the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit." Acts 8:14-17. By faith we acknowledge love, but we receive it through a life of mercy and piety. The goal of spiritual life in the bible is the likeness to God: "Now eagerly desire the greater gifts", 1 Corinthians 12:31.
The love of God is adult love, the love that is born out of the fear of God (constancy, firmness, devotion, equanimity, stability): "Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man", Ecclesiastes 12:13. Moses' law is not enough: "Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin", Romans 3:20.
We need the progressive constancy to bear the fruits of the spirit: "But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law"; Galatians 5:21-23.
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