Loving Your 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.

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

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

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

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

Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

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

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

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

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 →

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →

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

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

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

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

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

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the home-born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.

Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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 →

We love, because he first loved us.

Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one: — read the full passage →

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

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 →

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy:

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

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

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

For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. — read the full passage →

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy: — read the full passage →

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, — read the full passage →

Let all that ye do be done in love.

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 →

and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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;

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.

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:

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

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

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah:

Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah: — read the full passage →

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 →

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.

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong. — read the full passage →

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

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.

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

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.

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

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.

Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath of God: for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

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

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.

because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

But into whatsoever city ye shall enter, and they receive you not, go out into the streets thereof and say, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. — read the full passage →

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

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. — read the full passage →