Matthew 22:39
The next most important commandment that everyone must surely obey is: ‘You must love the people you come in contact with as much as you love yourself.’
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
In Context
38That is the most important commandment in the laws that God gave Moses.
Cross References
Matthew 19:19honor your father and your mother, and love people you come in contact with as much as you love yourself.”
Luke 10:27The man replied, “ He wrote that we (inc) must love the Lord our God. We must show that by what we feel and by what we do and by what we think. He also wrote that we must love people that we come in contact with as much as we love ourselves.”
Romans 15:2Each of us should do the things that please the fellow believers with whom we come in contact, and things that will benefit them. We should do those things in order to help them mature spiritually.
Galatians 6:10So, whenever we have opportunities, we should do what is good to all people. But especially we should do what is good to all our fellow believers.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 22:35-41
The Substance of the Commandments. 34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as… Read the whole commentary →