Loving Thy Neighbor

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

“‘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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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.

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.”

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate 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’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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

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.

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.

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

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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,

We love him, because he first loved us.

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.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

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.”

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 →

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

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

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. — read the full passage →

Therefore when 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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in 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 →

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

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

It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall beyour servant. — read the full passage →

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

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. — read the full passage →

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who 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 →

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods. — read the full passage →

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? — read the full passage →

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

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

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.”

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

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

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

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? — read the full passage →

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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?

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

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

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

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

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

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,

“‘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.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

who was faithful to him who 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 on the earth.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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. — read the full passage →

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

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

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

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

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. — read the full passage →

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?” — read the full passage →

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

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

When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →