Matthew 7:12

Therefore, everything that you wish Bnei Adam do for you, thus also you do for them. For this is the Torah and the Neviim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

In Context

11Therefore, if you, being ra'im (evil ones), know to give matanot tovot (good gifts) to your yeladim, how much more does your Av sh'ba'Shomayim give hatov (the good) to the ones asking Him.

13Enter through the derech (way) of the shaar hatzarut (gate of narrowness), for wide is the delet and broad is the rekhov (street) leading to Avaddon (destruction, hell, Abaddon), and rabbim (many) are they who enter through it.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:18Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the bnei ammecha (children of thy people), v'ahavta l'reacha kamocha (but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself): I am Hashem.

Jeremiah 7:5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your deeds; if ye throughly dispense mishpat between an ish and his re'a (neighbor);

Ezekiel 18:21But if the rashah will turn from all his chattot that he hath committed, and be shomer over all My chukkot, and do that which is mishpat and tzedakah, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Micah 6:8He hath showed thee, O adam (man), what is tov. 1 And what doth Hashem require of thee, 1 but to do mishpat, and ahavat chesed, 1 and to walk humbly with Eloheicha? 1

Zechariah 8:16These are the things that ye must do: 1 Speak ye every man emes to his neighbor; 1 execute the judgment of mishpat shalom 1 in your she'arim (gates, courts); 1

Matthew 22:39And the second mitzvah is like it: V'AHAVTA L'REACHA KAMOCHA (And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself). + 22:39 Lv 19:18

Matthew Henry on Matthew 7:8-12

The Sermon on the Mount. 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to… Read the whole commentary →

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