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How To Treat Your Neighbor

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Mark 12:31

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Luke 6:27

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Matthew 7:12

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Leviticus 19:18

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Luke 10:25–37

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:44

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

James 2:8

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Galatians 5:14

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

Mark 12:30

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Galatians 6:10

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Matthew 5:43

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’

Romans 13:10

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Romans 13:9

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

1 Peter 3:8

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

Romans 13:8–10

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:19

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Colossians 3:13

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

1 Corinthians 10:24

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

Romans 15:2

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Romans 12:10

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Proverbs 3:29

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

1 John 3:17

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

Hebrews 13:1–2

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

John 15:12

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Luke 10:27

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

1 John 3:11

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

John 13:34–35

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

Matthew 22:39

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Matthew 6:33

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 5:16

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Proverbs 21:1–31

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 19:13

“‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Ephesians 2:8–9

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Romans 1:1–32

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Luke 6:31

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Mark 12:33

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Mark 12:30–31

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment. — read the full passage →

Matthew 22:40

The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

Deuteronomy 10:19

Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

1 Peter 4:8

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Romans 14:13

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Romans 13:9–10

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” — read the full passage →

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Romans 5:8

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Mark 12:29–31

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: — read the full passage →

Matthew 25:40

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Matthew 22:37–40

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:43–48

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Deuteronomy 6:4–5

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 19:34

The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 19:33–34

“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 19:17–18

“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 19:9–10

“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. — read the full passage →

Revelation 2:26

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

1 John 4:21

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

Galatians 3:28

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 11:14–15

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. — read the full passage →

John 13:35

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 3:5

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Matthew 7:1

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

Exodus 20:16

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Revelation 1:1–20

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

1 John 2:10

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

Philippians 2:3

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Romans 2:1

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Acts 1:1–26

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

John 3:16–17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

John 1:1–51

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Mark 16:16

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Matthew 5:13

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

Exodus 35:2

‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

1 John 5:3

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4:8

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

1 John 3:18

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Colossians 3:12–14

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

Philippians 2:3–4

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Ephesians 2:4–5

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Romans 14:5

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

Mark 2:17

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Romans 12:19

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

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