Matthew 7:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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General references

Deuteronomy 2:6

Matthew 22:40

Luke 6:31

Bible References

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

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

learn to do good; seek judgment; restore unto the oppressed; hear the fatherless in right judgment; protect the widow.

For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly do right between a man and his neighbour,

neither oppress any, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with a garment,

Seek that which is good, and not that which is evil that ye may live; and so the LORD, the God of the hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

He has declared unto thee, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of thee: only to do right judgment, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself to walk with thy God.

Are these not the words which the LORD has published by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and quiet and the cities thereof round about her and when the south and the plain were inhabited?

These are the things that ye shall do: Speak each one the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;

And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.

And Jesus responded unto him, The principal of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is one;

Owe no one anything, but love one unto another; for he that loves his neighbour has fulfilled the law.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only do not use liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by charity serve one another.

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned:

For whosoever shall have kept the whole law, and then offends in one point is made guilty of all.

General references

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

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

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