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Love for Enemies
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
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honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”
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And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
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The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
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To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
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Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy.
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All the neighbors were filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things.
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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.’”
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But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
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“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
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Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.
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and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
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And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’
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His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”
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The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
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Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.
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For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.
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No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
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If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right.
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There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
