Galatians 5:14

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For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

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  • Lev 19:18 : 18 Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
  • Matt 22:39-40 : 39 And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. 40 On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.
  • Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law. 9 And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. 10 Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.
  • Gal 6:2 : 2 Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
  • Jas 2:8-9 : 8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well: 9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law. 10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all. 11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.
  • Mark 12:31 : 31 The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these.
  • Matt 19:18-19 : 18 He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Do not put anyone to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, 19 Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
  • Luke 10:27-37 : 27 And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself. 28 And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life. 29 But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour? 30 And Jesus, answering him, said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he got into the hands of thieves, who took his clothing and gave him cruel blows, and when they went away, he was half dead. 31 And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he went by on the other side. 32 And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side. 33 But a certain man of Samaria, journeying that way, came where he was, and when he saw him, he was moved with pity for him, 34 And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him. 35 And the day after he took two pennies and gave them to the owner of the house and said, Take care of him; and if this money is not enough, when I come again I will give you whatever more is needed. 36 Which of these three men, in your opinion, was neighbour to the man who came into the hands of thieves? 37 And he said, The one who had mercy on him. And Jesus said, Go and do the same.
  • John 13:34 : 34 I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.
  • Mark 12:33 : 33 And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.
  • Lev 19:34 : 34 Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

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  • Rom 13:8-10
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    8 Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.

    9 And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

    10 Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

  • Jas 2:8-12
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    8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:

    9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

    10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

    11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

    12 Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

  • Matt 22:36-40
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    36 Master, which is the chief rule in the law?

    37 And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

    38 This is the first and greatest rule.

    39 And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

    40 On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.

  • Gal 5:15-18
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    15 But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

    16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

    18 But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Gal 6:2
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    2 Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.

  • Mark 12:30-31
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    30 And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

    31 The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these.

  • Matt 19:19
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    19 Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

  • John 15:12
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    12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

  • Luke 10:27
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    27 And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.

  • Matt 5:43-44
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    43 You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:

    44 But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;

  • Rom 2:14
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    14 For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

  • Matt 7:12
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    12 All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.

  • Gal 5:23
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    23 Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

  • Mark 12:33
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    33 And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.

  • Lev 19:18
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    18 Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.

  • John 13:34-35
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    34 I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

    35 By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

  • Luke 6:31-32
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    31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.

    32 If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.

  • Rom 15:2
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    2 Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.

  • Rom 8:4
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    4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

  • Col 3:13-14
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    13 Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

    14 And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

  • 1 John 4:21
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    21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

  • Eph 4:32
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    32 And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

  • John 15:17
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    17 So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9 But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;

  • 1 John 4:11
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    11 My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

  • Rom 13:14
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    14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8 And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

  • Rom 10:4
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    4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith.

  • Rom 7:7
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    7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

  • Matt 5:18
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    18 Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.