2 Samuel 13:22
Hebrew Text— 2 Samuel 13:22Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
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He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.
Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.
The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’ ” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”
When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
This is Yahweh’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.
Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.
Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.
“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,
He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.
Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another,
A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.