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

For

And the second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Thou shalt not avenge thyself, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am Jehovah.

learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.

But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye really do justice between a man and his neighbour,

and hath not oppressed any; he hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath not exercised robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and covered the naked with a garment;

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

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

Are not these the words that Jehovah cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and at peace, and her cities round about her, when the south and the lowland were inhabited?

These are the things that ye shall do: Speak truth every one with his neighbour; execute truth and the judgment of 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 hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

And Jesus answered him, The first commandment of all is, Hear, Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord;

Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

For ye have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

For whoever shall keep the whole law and shall offend in one point, he has come under the guilt of breaking all.

General references

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

On these two commandments the whole law and the prophets hang.

And as ye wish that men should do to you, do ye also to them in like manner.