Mark 12:31
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The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Do everything in love.
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. . . .
We love because He first loved us.
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.
If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?” He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” “You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.” But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” . . .
Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come. Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’ But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business. . . .
And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question: “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?” Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. . . .
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same? . . .
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’
No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Continue in brotherly love. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?” Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.
By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being united in spirit and purpose.
They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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