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Matthew 7:12

Therefore, whatever things you want people to do to you, you should also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

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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 who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him?

13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many people who go through it.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:18Do not take vengeance or hold any grudge against any of your people, but instead love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Jeremiah 7:5For if you actually make your ways and practices good; if you completely execute justice between a man and his neighbor—

Ezekiel 18:21But if the wicked turns away from all his sins that he has done, and keeps all my statutes and performs justice and righteousness, then he will certainly live and not die.

Micah 6:8He has told you, man, 1 what is good, 1 and what Yahweh requires from you: 1 Act justly, 1 love kindness, 1 and walk humbly with your God. 1

Zechariah 8:16These are the things that you must do: Speak truth, every person with his neighbor. Judge with truth, justice, and peace in your gates.

Matthew 22:39And a second commandment is like it—'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

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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