Loving Thy Neighbor

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

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

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

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

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

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

Let love of the brethren continue. — read the full passage →

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

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;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother’s way, or an occasion of falling.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and made trial of him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? — read the full passage →

To him that is ready to faint kindness should be showed from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

We love, because he first loved us.

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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

And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. — read the full passage →

One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?

Honor widows that are widows indeed.

Wherefore receive ye one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.

If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end. — read the full passage →

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituræa and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, — read the full passage →

Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister; — read the full passage →

Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? — read the full passage →

Thus hath Jehovah of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother; — read the full passage →

Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. — read the full passage →

Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

God standeth in the congregation of God; He judgeth among the gods. — read the full passage →

Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? — read the full passage →

Then Job answered and said, — read the full passage →

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.

On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.

Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen. — read the full passage →

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

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

But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you,

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together. — read the full passage →

but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;

Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;

Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:

who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith. — read the full passage →

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another; — read the full passage →

Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things. — read the full passage →

Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but prayer was made earnestly of the church unto God for him.

And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle? — read the full passage →

give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.

Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and came unto Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, — read the full passage →

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →