'Neighbor' in the Bible

Every woman will ask her neighbor and the one who happens to be staying in her house for items of silver and gold and for clothing. You will put these articles on your sons and daughters -- thus you will plunder Egypt!"

Instruct the people that each man and each woman is to request from his or her neighbor items of silver and gold."

If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people -- you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.

When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws."

"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor."

But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

"If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

If the ox of one man injures the ox of his neighbor so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide its proceeds, and they will also divide the dead ox.

"If a man gives his neighbor money or articles for safekeeping, and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is caught, he must repay double.

In all cases of illegal possessions, whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says 'This belongs to me,' the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, and the one whom the judges declare guilty must repay double to his neighbor.

If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is hurt or is carried away without anyone seeing it,

"If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.

If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,

and he said to them, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Each man fasten his sword on his side, and go back and forth from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.'"

You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against him. You must not withhold the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.

You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

When you see your neighbor's ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.

You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved.

When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please, but you must not take away any in a container.

When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor's ripe grain.

When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

Cursed is the one who kills his neighbor in private.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

The neighbor women named him, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." They named him Obed. Now he became the father of Jesse -- David's father!

The Lord has done exactly as I prophesied! The Lord has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor David!

"When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false.

"When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple,

He does not slander, or do harm to others, or insult his neighbor.

I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret. I will not tolerate anyone who has a cocky demeanor and an arrogant attitude.

Do not say to your neighbor, "Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it," when you have it with you at the time.

Do not plot evil against your neighbor when he dwells by you unsuspectingly.

My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, and have become a guarantor for a stranger,

then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor's power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.

With his speech the godless person destroys his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous will be delivered.

The one who denounces his neighbor lacks wisdom, but the one who has discernment keeps silent.

The one who despises his neighbor sins, but whoever is kind to the needy is blessed.

A violent person entices his neighbor, and leads him down a path that is terrible.

The one who lacks wisdom strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.

The appetite of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor is shown no favor in his eyes.

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your words.

Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?

When you argue a case with your neighbor, do not reveal the secret of another person,

Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow, so is the one who testifies against his neighbor as a false witness.

so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not enter your brother's house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.

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

The one who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

I said, "So now, you wailing women, hear what the Lord says. Open your ears to the words from his mouth. Teach your daughters this mournful song, and each of you teach your neighbor this lament.

So I, the Lord, say: "You have not really obeyed me and granted freedom to your neighbor and fellow countryman. Therefore, I will grant you freedom, the freedom to die in war, or by starvation or disease. I, the Lord, affirm it! I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to you.

"You who force your neighbor to drink wine are as good as dead -- you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their genitals.

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land," says the Lord, "but instead I will turn every last person 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 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 commandment greater than these."

And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."

The expert answered, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself."

But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

Which of these three do you think became a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?"

But the man who was unfairly hurting his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

For the commandments, "Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet," (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, "Love your neighbor as yourself."

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, "You must love your neighbor as yourself."

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge -- the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?