We should pay everything that is due, taxes, financial debts, honour etc. Ie we are to fully give what others have a right to. But with love, we have an unending duty to love others. Love is freely given, we are to love people because it is right to do so, not because they have earned it. For this is how God loves. All the commandments relating to ones duties towards other people can be summed up the one command "love your neighbour as yourself".
So, Paul says, love is the fulfilment of the law. Jesus said the same thing when He said the law can be summed up by the two commandments, to love God with all we have, and our neighbour as ourself.
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