Neighbor

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

“‘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.

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

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

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 →

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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?

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

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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.”

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.”

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

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 →

We love him, because he first loved us.

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

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

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

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.

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

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 →

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.

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 →

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

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

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

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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.

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.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

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.

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.” — read the full passage →

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.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

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.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

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

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

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.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

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

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

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

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

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — 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.”

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

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

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

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” — 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 have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

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

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

“‘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 →

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. — read the full passage →

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

“You shall not steal.

“You shall not murder.

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 →

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 →

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

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

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

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

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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,

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to 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 →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. — read the full passage →