Matthew 7:12

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.”

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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.”

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

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.”

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

“ ‘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.

The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

For there is no partiality with God.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

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.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

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.

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

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.

Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’ ”

If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.

Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,