When Christians disagree on non-essentials, we are to show love and respect and refrain from judging or condemning.

What is the debt we can never repay? It's that God first loved us and sent His Son to redeem sinners. We can never repay the debt we owe for our salvation, but we can 'pay it forward," so to speak, by loving others. Love of God and love for neighbor are the two most important aspects of the Law, and to love neighbor pleases our Lord.

In Paul's closing remarks, he recognizes the people who were important in his ministry. In these closing verses, we see the importance of every Christian in God's work of advancing His kingdom.

In Romans 13, Paul details how Christians are to respond to the fact that God has ordained all authorities in the temporal world/

In Luke 19, verses 41-48, we see the true heart of Jesus revealed as he weeps over Jerusalem. As His disciples observed the compassion of Christ, Jesus went on to interrupt their thinking of how to respond to unbelief to show them the transforming power of the Word of Christ that would soon come into their lives.