And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Parallel translations
- WEB A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
- KJV And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- NKJV And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
- NASB The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
- NLT A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
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Quick answer
The second commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. Love for others flows from and resembles love for God.
Overview
Quoting Leviticus 19:18, Jesus joins love of neighbor to love of God as inseparable companions. Genuine love for God necessarily issues in self-giving love toward others. Together these commands summarize the whole moral life and are fully embodied in Christ, who loved God perfectly and gave Himself for sinners.
Cross-references & the web
Quotation
- Lev 19:18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Cross-references · 9
- Mark 12:31The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
- Luke 10:27–37He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
- Lev 19:18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
- Rom 13:9–10The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Gal 5:14The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Matt 19:19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
- Rom 15:2Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
- Jas 2:8If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
- Gal 6:10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
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