'Neighbor' in the Bible

The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your neighbor?”

Each woman will ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry, and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”

If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each person will eat.

Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

If a person schemes and willfully acts against his neighbor to murder him, you must take him from My altar to be put to death.

“When a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep, but they are stolen from that person’s house, the thief, if caught, must repay double.

In any case of wrongdoing involving an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or anything else lost, and someone claims, ‘That’s mine,’ the case between the two parties is to come before the judges. The one the judges condemn must repay double to his neighbor.

“When a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to care for, but it dies, is injured, or is stolen, while no one is watching,

“When a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not there with it, the man must make full restitution.

He told them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man fasten his sword to his side; go back and forth through the camp from entrance to entrance, and each of you kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”

“When someone sins and offends the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit, a security, or a robbery; or defrauds his neighbor;

“You must not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired hand must not remain with you until morning.

“You must not act unjustly when deciding a case. Do not be partial to the poor or give preference to the rich; judge your neighbor fairly.

“You must not harbor hatred against your brother. Rebuke your neighbor directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.

Do not take revenge or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbor as yourself; I am Yahweh.

If any man inflicts a permanent injury on his neighbor, whatever he has done is to be done to him:

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat one another.

You are to make the purchase from your neighbor based on the number of years since the last Jubilee. He is to sell to you based on the number of remaining harvest years.

Someone could flee there who committed manslaughter, killing his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:

Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.

Do not covet your neighbor’s wife or desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor is to cancel what he has lent his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the Lord’s release of debts has been proclaimed.

“Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.

Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger might pursue the one who committed manslaughter, overtake him because the distance is great, and strike him dead. Yet he did not deserve to die, since he did not previously hate his neighbor.

But if someone hates his neighbor, lies in ambush for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally, and flees to one of these cities,

Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

“When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security.

‘The one who secretly kills his neighbor is cursed.’And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not hand the one who committed manslaughter over to him, for he killed his neighbor accidentally and did not hate him beforehand.

The neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingship of Israel away from you today and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.

The Lord has done exactly what He said through me: The Lord has torn the kingship out of your hand and given it to your neighbor David.

When a man sins against his neighborand is forced to take an oath,and he comes to take an oathbefore Your altar in this temple,

If a man sins against his neighborand is forced to take an oathand he comes to take an oathbefore Your altar in this temple,

who does not slander with his tongue,who does not harm his friendor discredit his neighbor,

You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me;darkness is my only friend.

I will destroy anyonewho secretly slanders his neighbor;I cannot tolerate anyonewith haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.

Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go away! Come back later.I’ll give it tomorrow”—when it is there with you.

Don’t plan any harm against your neighbor,for he trusts you and lives near you.

My son, if you have put up security for your neighboror entered into an agreement with a stranger,

Do this, then, my son, and free yourself,for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power:Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.

With his mouth the ungodly destroys his neighbor,but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.

Whoever shows contempt for his neighbor lacks sense,but a man with understanding keeps silent.

A righteous man is careful in dealing with his neighbor,but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.

A poor man is hated even by his neighbor,but there are many who love the rich.

The one who despises his neighbor sins,but whoever shows kindness to the poor will be happy.

A violent man lures his neighbor,leading him in a way that is not good.

A wicked person desires evil;he has no consideration for his neighbor.

Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause.Don’t deceive with your lips.

A man giving false testimony against his neighboris like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

so is the man who deceives his neighborand says, “I was only joking!”

Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,and don’t go to your brother’s housein your time of calamity;better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

If one blesses his neighborwith a loud voice early in the morning,it will be counted as a curse to him.

A man who flatters his neighborspreads a net for his feet.

The people will oppress one another,man against man, neighbor against neighbor;the youth will act arrogantly toward the elder,and the worthless toward the honorable.

No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their wrongdoing and never again remember their sin.”

Today you repented and did what pleased Me, each of you proclaiming freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me at the temple called by My name.

“Therefore, this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed Me by proclaiming freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. I hereby proclaim freedom for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“to the sword, to plague, and to famine! I will make you a horror to all the earth’s kingdoms.

On that day, each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree.” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.

For prior to those days neither man nor beast had wages. There was no safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I turned everyone against his neighbor.

Do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all this”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”

“You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.

honor your father and your mother;and love your neighbor as yourself.

The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.

“The second is: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other command greater than these.”

And to love Him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

He answered:Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”

“But the one who was mistreating his neighbor pushed him away, saying:Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?

The commandments:Do not commit adultery;do not murder;do not steal;do not covet;and whatever other commandment—all are summed up by this: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.

Each one of us must please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Since you put away lying, Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.

There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?