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.

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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, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

Learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

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

And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has robbed none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

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

He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Should you not hear the words which the LORD has cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, when men inhabited the south and the lowland?

These are the things that you shall do; Speak you every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

And I will come near to 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 sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.

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

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

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

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

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

General references

You shall buy food from them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.

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

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