“Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.”
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. The most famous verse in Leviticus: love your neighbor as yourself. The prohibition on revenge and grudge-bearing leads to the positive command of neighbor love. Matthew 22:39 records Jesus identifying this as the second great commandment; Mark 12:31 records that there is no commandment greater than these (love of God and love of neighbor). Romans 13:9 says the law is summed up in this one command. The love of neighbor that Leviticus 19:18 commands is the love that fulfills the entire second table of the covenant.
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