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Neighbors
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The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
“‘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.
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
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.”
Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.
‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
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.
“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.
Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you. — read the full passage →
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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.”
“‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh. — read the full passage →
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 no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →
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.
Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
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.
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 →
Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →
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.”
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
“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.”
“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? — 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.
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.
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 →
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
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 →
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
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.”
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’
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,
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →
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.’”
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
“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.”
Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”
Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
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.
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
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.
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.
This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
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.
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.
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.
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 →
Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.
One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.
My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
“‘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.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
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.
“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
“‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
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.
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,
But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
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,
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 →
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
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 →
“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?
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.
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.
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. — read the full passage →
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
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.
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