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Direct Answer The transcript’s image of love as an unpaid, ongoing “debt” challenges the mindset that love can be checked off; Paul’s goal is not a finished quota of kindness but a continuing life that keeps producing good works.

Support from Transcript:

• Bercot says Chrysostom “calls love the mother of good works,” meaning love generates ongoing action rather than isolated moments.
• Chrysostom is quoted: “Love is a continuous debt,” emphasizing it doesn’t stop.
• He adds, “Paul does not wish it ever to be paid off,” directly rejecting the idea of reaching a point of “enough.”
• Bercot himself states, “The debt of love that we owe to one another never ends.”
• Paul’s conclusion reinforces that love is not merely internal feeling but outward conduct: “Love works no harm to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.”