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: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

You shall not seek vengeance, and you shall not harbor a grudge [against] {your fellow citizens}; and you shall love your neighbor like yourself; I [am] Yahweh.

Learn to do good! Seek justice! Rescue [the] oppressed! Defend [the] orphan! Plead for [the] widow!

For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do justice between a man and his neighbor,

and he oppresses {no one} [and] he returns pledge for his loan {and he commits no robbery} [and] he gives his bread to [the] hungry and he covers a naked person [with] a garment,

Seek good and not bad in order that you may live, and so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

He has told you, O mortal, what [is] good, and what does Yahweh ask from you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

[Are] not [these] the words that Yahweh proclaimed {through} the former prophets, when Jerusalem and {its surrounding towns} were inhabited and at ease, and the Negev and the Shephelah were inhabited?'"

These [are] the things that you must do: speak truth, each [of you], with his neighbor; practice trustworthy judgment and peace in your gates.

"Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear {falsely}, and against the oppressors of [the] hired worker [with his] wages, [the] widow and [the] orphan, and {the abusers of} [the] alien, and [yet] do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.

Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,

For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one [point only] has become guilty of all [of it].

General references

You shall buy food from them so that you may eat; and also you shall purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.

On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets."

And just as you want people {to do} to you, do {the same} to them.