Matthew 7:12

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Summary

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

For

General references

Deuteronomy 2:6

Matthew 22:40

Luke 6:31

Bible References

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

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.

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

For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Should ye not hear the words which Jehovah cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?

These are the things that ye shall do: speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right , and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one:

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

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point , he is become guilty of all.

General references

Ye shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.

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

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