Luke 10:37

The lawyer admits the merciful one was the true neighbor, and Jesus tells him to go and do likewise. Love proven in action is the law's true aim.

Cross-references · 16

• 1 Jn 3:16–18By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• Mic 6:8He 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?
• 1 Pet 2:21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
• 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
• 1 Jn 4:10–11In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
• Luke 6:32–36If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
• John 13:15–17For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
• Hos 6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• Matt 23:23“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.
• Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
• Prov 14:21He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• 1 Jn 3:23–24This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
• Heb 2:9–15But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
• Eph 3:18–19may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

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