Romans 13:9

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For the commandments,“Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,”(and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this,“Love your neighbor as yourself.”

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  • Lev 19:18 : 18 You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
  • Matt 19:18-19 : 18 “Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied,“Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, 19 honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Exod 20:12-17 : 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you. 13 “You shall not murder. 14 “You shall not commit adultery. 15 “You shall not steal. 16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
  • Mark 12:31 : 31 The second is:‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
  • Luke 10:27 : 27 The expert answered,“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Rom 7:7-8 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 Practice Love For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.
  • Jas 2:8-9 : 8 But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture,“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators. 10 For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
  • Luke 18:20 : 20 You know the commandments:‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”
  • Matt 22:39 : 39 The second is like it:‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
  • Mark 10:19 : 19 You know the commandments:‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”
  • Lev 19:34 : 34 The resident foreigner who lives with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
  • Deut 5:16-21 : 16 Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you. 17 You must not murder. 18 You must not commit adultery. 19 You must not steal. 20 You must not offer false testimony against another. 21 You must not desire another man’s wife, nor should you crave his house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, or anything else he owns.”

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  • Rom 13:8
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    8Exhortation to Love Neighbors Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

  • Gal 5:14-15
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    14For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely,“You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

    15However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

  • Rom 13:10
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    10Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

  • Mark 12:30-31
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    30Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’

    31The second is:‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

  • Matt 19:18-19
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    18“Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied,“Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,

    19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”

  • Matt 22:36-40
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    36“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”

    37Jesus said to him,“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

    38This is the first and greatest commandment.

    39The second is like it:‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

    40All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

  • Mark 10:19
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    19You know the commandments:‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”

  • Luke 18:20-21
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    20You know the commandments:‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”

    21The man replied,“I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth.”

  • Jas 2:8-11
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    8But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture,“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

    9But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

    10For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

    11For he who said,“Do not commit adultery,” also said,“Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

  • Exod 20:13-17
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    13“You shall not murder.

    14“You shall not commit adultery.

    15“You shall not steal.

    16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

    17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

  • Lev 19:17-18
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    17You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.

    18You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

  • Deut 5:17-21
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    17You must not murder.

    18You must not commit adultery.

    19You must not steal.

    20You must not offer false testimony against another.

    21You must not desire another man’s wife, nor should you crave his house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, or anything else he owns.”

  • Luke 10:27
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    27The expert answered,“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.”

  • John 15:12
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    12My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.

  • Rom 7:7
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

  • Mark 12:33
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    33And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

  • John 13:34-35
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    34“I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

    35Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”

  • Lev 19:11
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    11Dealing Honestly“‘You must not steal, you must not tell lies, and you must not deal falsely with your fellow citizen.

  • Matt 5:27
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    27Adultery“You have heard that it was said,‘Do not commit adultery.’

  • John 15:17
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    17This I command you– to love one another.

  • Matt 5:43
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    43Love for Enemies“You have heard that it was said,‘Love your neighbor’ and‘hate your enemy.’

  • Matt 7:12
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    12In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.

  • Rom 2:22
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    22You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

  • Lev 18:20
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    20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

  • Lev 20:10
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    10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

  • Gal 6:2
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    2Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

  • 1 Thess 4:6
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    6In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

  • Luke 6:31
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    31Treat others in the same way that you would want them to treat you.

  • 1 John 4:21
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    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.