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 it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.

Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.

He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.

Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?

These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord;

Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.

Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

General references

You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.

On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.

Do to others as you would have them do to you.