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12 The Golden Rule of Love.[a]“In everything, deal with others as you would like them to deal with you. This is the Law and the Prophets.

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  1. Matthew 7:12 Here in a word is what one must retain of the Law and the Prophets, i.e., the Old Testament: to have for others the same concern one has for oneself, out of love for God. This so-called Golden Rule is found in negative form in rabbinic Judaism as well as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you,(A) for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.(B)

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