loving your neighbor
What does the Bible say about loving your neighbor? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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31But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
18Do not seek revenge, neither should you be mindful of the injury of your fellow citizens. You shall love your friend as yourself. I am the Lord.
12Therefore, all things whatsoever that you wish that men would do to you, do so also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.
27But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.
36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37Jesus said to him: “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38This is the greatest and first commandment. 39But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40On these two commandments the entire law depends, and also the prophets.”
8You should owe nothing to anyone, except so as to love one another. For whoever loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9For example: You shall not commit adultery. You shall not kill. You shall not steal. You shall not speak false testimony. You shall not covet. And if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 10The love of neighbor does no harm. Therefore, love is the plenitude of the law.
19Honor your father and your mother. And, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
8So if you perfect the regal law, according to the Scriptures, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” then you do well.
12This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
2Each one of you should please his neighbor unto good, for edification.
14For the entire law is fulfilled by one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
25And behold, a certain expert in the law rose up, testing him and saying, “Teacher, what must I do to possess eternal life?” 26But he said to him: “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” 27In response, he said: “You shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart, and from your whole soul, and from all your strength, and from all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” 28And he said to him: “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.” 29But since he wanted to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” 30Then Jesus, taking this up, said: “A certain man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he happened upon robbers, who now also plundered him. And inflicting him with wounds, they went away, leaving him behind, half-alive.
9For example: You shall not commit adultery. You shall not kill. You shall not steal. You shall not speak false testimony. You shall not covet. And if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
16And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.
39But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’