Leviticus 19:18

Israel must not take vengeance or hold grudges but love their neighbor as themselves.

Cross-references · 23

• Matt 22:39–40A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
• Rom 13:9For 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.”
• Mark 12:31–34The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
• Luke 10:27–37He 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.”
• Gal 5:14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
• Jas 2:8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
• Matt 5:43–44“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
• Matt 19:19‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
• Rom 12:19Don’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.”
• Rom 12:17Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
• Exod 23:4–5“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
• Prov 20:22Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
• Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• Col 3:8but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
• Matt 19:16Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”
• 1 Pet 2:1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• Heb 10:30For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me,” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
• 2 Sam 13:28Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
• 2 Sam 13:22Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
• Deut 32:25Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
• Rom 13:4for 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.
• Gal 5:20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
• Ps 103:9He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

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