Matthew 5:43
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43 (A)“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’(B)
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Matthew 19:19
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19 honor your father and your mother’; and ‘you shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
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Matthew 22:39
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39 (A)The second is like it:[a] You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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- 22:39 Jesus goes beyond the extent of the question put to him and joins to the greatest and the first commandment a second, that of love of neighbor, Lv 19:18; see note on Mt 19:18–19. This combination of the two commandments may already have been made in Judaism.
Mark 12:31
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31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”(A)
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Romans 13:9
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9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this saying, [namely] “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”(A)
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Galatians 5:14
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14 For the whole law(A) is fulfilled in one statement, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”[a]
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- 5:14 Lv 19:18, emphasized by Jesus (Mt 22:39; Lk 10:27); cf. Rom 13:8–10.
James 2:8
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8 However, if you fulfill the royal[a] law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.(A)
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1 John 3:14
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14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death.(A)
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