Neighbor

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well;

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like <FI>it<Fi> , this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; --greater than these there is no other command.'

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

`Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which <FI>is<Fi> thy neighbour's.'

And one of the scribes having come near, having heard them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, questioned him, `Which is the first command of all?' — read the full passage →

and this <FI>is<Fi> the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance <FI>is<Fi> Mine,

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?' — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?'

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

as a native among you is the sojourner to you who is sojourning with you, and thou hast had love to him as to thyself, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;' — read the full passage →

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ--for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength--this <FI>is<Fi> the first command;

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death;

After these things I saw, and lo, a door opened in the heaven, and the first voice that I heard <FI>is<Fi> as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, `Come up hither, and I will shew thee what it behoveth to come to pass after these things;' — read the full passage →

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →

for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

`Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?'

and Jesus having taken up <FI>the word<Fi> , said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving <FI>him<Fi> half dead. — read the full passage →

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and Jesus answered him--`The first of all the commands <FI>is<Fi> , Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one; — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

`Teacher, which <FI>is<Fi> the great command in the Law?' — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

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

`Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy;

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

`And in your reaping the harvest of your land ye do not completely reap the corner of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, — read the full passage →

`If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he hath been smitten, and hath died, there is no blood for him; — read the full passage →

`When a man doth steal an ox or sheep, and hath slaughtered it or sold it, five of the herd he doth repay for the ox, and four of the flock for the sheep. — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not steal.

`Thou dost not murder.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love? — read the full passage →

In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son--the only begotten--hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us, — read the full passage →

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common. — read the full passage →