What the Bible says about loving your neighbor

The 14 verses readers most often turn to for this topic, quoted in full from the Berean Standard Bible.

Lev 19:18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

Mark 12:31The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

Matt 22:39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Jas 2:8If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Rom 13:8–10Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Gal 5:14The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

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

Matt 7:12In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.

Phil 2:4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Heb 13:16And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

1 John 3:17–18If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

1 Pet 4:9Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

1 Thess 5:14And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.

Prov 14:21He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who shows kindness to the poor.

These are the verses readers most often turn to for this topic — not a teaching on it. Read each in its chapter.

Sources

The verses of each topic and their order: OpenBible.info topical data, by readers’ votes: OpenBible.info · CC BY 4.0

Berean Standard Bible · Public domain