A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Parallel translations
- KJV And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- BSB And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- 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.
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Quotation
- Lev 19:18“‘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.
Cross-references · 9
- Mark 12:31The 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.”
- Lev 19:18“‘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.
- Rom 13:9–10For 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.”
- Gal 5:14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Matt 19:19‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
- Rom 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
- Jas 2:8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
- Gal 6:10So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
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