Jesus
said Love your neighbor as yourself and that is what we should do.
Not exact matches
He
said, «That you
love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence — and that you
love your
neighbor as well
as you do yourself.»
Jesus
said all the laws of the prophets can be summed up in «
love God and
love your
neighbor as your self».
We are living under the new covenant, not OT law - Jesus
said the law can be summed up in only 2 laws:
love your
neighbor as yourself and
love God with all your heart.
Grow up and be tolerant, like the Bible
says —
Love thy
neighbor as thy self.
This article was a beautiful statement of what Jesus
said was the 2nd Commandment «
Love your
neighbor as yourself», which is exactly what Kerry Egan is doing.
Jesus
said the greatest commandment is to
love your God with all your heart and
love your
neighbor as yourself.
Jesus
says that in order to be «saved» one must only, «
love God with all your heart and
love your
neighbor as you
love yourself.»
He
says, «
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind» and «
Love your
neighbor as yourself.»
All I'm trying to
say here is that when I'm told to
love God with my whole heart, soul and mind, and to
love my
neighbor as myself, and to forgive others unconditionally, and to
love my wife unconditionally, and to be kind and compassionate to others and to
love my en emies and to take care of orphans and to feed the hungry and not to li e or to e nvy or be boastful or arro gant or hypoc ritical or a gossip or proud, and when I'm told that God demonstrated his
love for us in that while we were still in s in, Christ di ed for us, I realize that these things have no relevance to the grie vances I find in» religion.»
I am comfortable, however,
saying that the summary of God's law for all people everywhere is «
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.&ra
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and
love your neighbor as yourself.&ra
love your
neighbor as yourself.»
He
says, «
love your
neighbor as yourself or go to hell».
Saying «
love your
neighbor as yourself» requires
loving ourselves enough to be honest about our brokenness.
There are many ways to read the Bible but Christ
said the only way to understand it is to have «I
love my
neighbor as myself» planted firmly in your mind.
If you feel like God is telling you to leave, before doing that, there are always opportunities to,
as you
said, to do things like «personally
loving our
neighbors, hanging out with «sinners,» spending time with societal rejects, defending the cause of the weak, and a variety of other ways of living that look just like Jesus.»
That's not to
say we should condone negative / sinful traits, but speaking about them in this nasty way just reinforces to them that you don't
love your
neighbor as much
as you're concerned with being self - righteous.
Christ
said simply that the two things we have to worry about are
loving God with all of our being, and
loving our
neighbor as ourselves.
Jesus Christ made that abundantly clear when he
said that the greatest commandment is, «
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind,» and then followed it up with a second commandment: «
Love your
neighbor as yourself.»
Jesus is reported to have
said «
Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.&ra
Love God with all your heart and
love your neighbor as yourself.&ra
love your
neighbor as yourself.»
Hence, Jesus
says «
Love your
neighbor as yourself» (Matthew 19:19; Mark 12:31); and «By this will they know you are my disciples» (John 13:35).
When I
said above that I believe we're only to
love God and those who believe in God, I was speaking in terms of the command to
love one another and the command to
love our
neighbors as ourselves (I believe the «one another» and «
neighbor» is only referring to believers and non-Jewish believers —
as per the Parable of the Good Samaritan).
For example, he rightly points out that Jesus
says, «You have heard that it was
said, «You shall
love your
neighbor and hate your enemy»» (Matthew 5:38), but what he doesn't
say is that there is a reason Jesus uses the expression, «that it was
said» instead of his usual expression, «have you not read» or «
as it is written» when he references scriptural passages.
Another individual, with a deeper physical grasp of the relations in the value matrix, answers: but I
say to you,
love your enemy
as well
as your
neighbor.
Or how about the proverb in which Jesus
said that the 2 most important commandments were
Love your Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as yours
Love your Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and
love your neighbor as yours
love your
neighbor as yourself?
In fact there seems to be a few things that the bible
says we have been saved by... Jesus (Romans 5:9), grace and faith, (Ephesians 2:8) believing (mark 16:16), confessing that Jesus is Lord and believing Jesus was raised from the dead by God (Romans 10:9),
Love God and your
Neighbor (Luke 10:25 - 28), repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10), baptism (1 Peter 3:21), Endurance (Matthew 24:13), works (which is best described
as actions and not good deeds)(James 2:24) and obeying (Matthew 7:21).
In his letter to the early Church, the Apostle James writes that we must show no partiality and reiterates what Jesus
said was the greatest commandment in relation to our fellow human beings — to
love our
neighbor as we
love ourselves (James 2:1, 8).
Jesus
said to
love your
neighbors as your self, but he also
said to not get involved in the worldly sinful nature.
Yeah — I got off - topic — just tired of the crazies and everything they
say they stand for and yet avoid at every opportunity... (like that
love thy
neighbor stuff...
as long
as they beleive like them that is...)
Is he
saying:
Love your neighbor with all the concern and passion with which, as a sinner, you now love yours
Love your
neighbor with all the concern and passion with which,
as a sinner, you now
love yours
love yourself?
As Hindu teachers sometimes say, «Love your neighbor as yourself, because he is yourself.&raqu
As Hindu teachers sometimes
say, «
Love your
neighbor as yourself, because he is yourself.&raqu
as yourself, because he is yourself.»
you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems, modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible,
as jesus
said ABOVE ALL ELSE
love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great
Singular
as it may appear, he seems to have
said little (in express terms) about the duty of
loving God, and not much more (in express terms) about
loving one's
neighbor, except where he was relating himself to current teaching with which his hearers would be familiar.
Yes, I heartily agree that,
as you
say, we are «perfectly
loved the same every day by God and Jesus,» even if we don't attend five Bible studies every week, or understand Jesus» admonition to «
love your
neighbor.»
As we seek to reach out with the
love of Jesus and
love our
neighbors like Jesus, we must avoid doing and
saying certain things.
I thought Jesus
said the most important commandment was «
Love thy
neighbor as thyself.»
Then there are those who are offended precisely because they DO know what Jesus taught — all that «
love your
neighbor as yourself» and «whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me» stuff — and proceed to ignore it because,
as one commenter
said recently, «we're not willing to do all those things anyway...»
This is what Jesus meant when He
said to
love your
neighbor as yourself (Mark 12:31).
He was
saying that before you can
love your
neighbors as the gospel calls you to do, you must first recognize the gospel truths that you yourself are
loved, forgiven, and accepted.
As the just person lives by faith, says Augustine, so the association of just men and women lives by faith active in love, the love by which one loves God alone and one's neighbor as onesel
As the just person lives by faith,
says Augustine, so the association of just men and women lives by faith active in
love, the
love by which one
loves God alone and one's
neighbor as onesel
as oneself.
Well, it's
as Jesus
said: «
Love God with all your being» and «love your neighbor as yourself.&ra
Love God with all your being» and «
love your neighbor as yourself.&ra
love your
neighbor as yourself.»
We may «
love our
neighbor» on a kind «
say hi» type level, but eventually
as we digest that idea — we find
love is deeper than a «hug or a handshake» — maybe the
neighbor needs help with moving his groceries from his car to his house.
As someone who believes in God whole heartedly and feels he is the way through alot of the darkness on this earth but also the way to celebrate our greatest joys.I am happy she has found the love of God.But I to find the choice of religion somewhat suspiscious.As others have pointed out the dicotomy makes one wonder if the fact that her boyfriend is a Catholic has alot to do with her choice.Alot of women and men for that matter find conform to what their partners religion is because it is just easier and more comfortable at home for them.Now I am not saying this is what happened in this case.but it is somehting ti ponder.For me loving God and your neighbor as much as yourself are the most important part of believeing in a Supreme Being and all the rest of the Dogma just gets in the way and even is the cause of alot of the strife and wars in this world.So I hope she is happy but UP God for me... but no thatnks on the religion
As someone who believes in God whole heartedly and feels he is the way through alot of the darkness on this earth but also the way to celebrate our greatest joys.I am happy she has found the
love of God.But I to find the choice of religion somewhat suspiscious.
As others have pointed out the dicotomy makes one wonder if the fact that her boyfriend is a Catholic has alot to do with her choice.Alot of women and men for that matter find conform to what their partners religion is because it is just easier and more comfortable at home for them.Now I am not saying this is what happened in this case.but it is somehting ti ponder.For me loving God and your neighbor as much as yourself are the most important part of believeing in a Supreme Being and all the rest of the Dogma just gets in the way and even is the cause of alot of the strife and wars in this world.So I hope she is happy but UP God for me... but no thatnks on the religion
As others have pointed out the dicotomy makes one wonder if the fact that her boyfriend is a Catholic has alot to do with her choice.Alot of women and men for that matter find conform to what their partners religion is because it is just easier and more comfortable at home for them.Now I am not
saying this is what happened in this case.but it is somehting ti ponder.For me
loving God and your
neighbor as much as yourself are the most important part of believeing in a Supreme Being and all the rest of the Dogma just gets in the way and even is the cause of alot of the strife and wars in this world.So I hope she is happy but UP God for me... but no thatnks on the religion
as much
as yourself are the most important part of believeing in a Supreme Being and all the rest of the Dogma just gets in the way and even is the cause of alot of the strife and wars in this world.So I hope she is happy but UP God for me... but no thatnks on the religion
as yourself are the most important part of believeing in a Supreme Being and all the rest of the Dogma just gets in the way and even is the cause of alot of the strife and wars in this world.So I hope she is happy but UP God for me... but no thatnks on the religion!!
Dave, Jesus
said to
love our
neighbor as ourselves.
You
say, «
Love your
neighbor as your self.»
As you
say, sometimes the real power in
loving others is found in struggling alongside our
neighbors.
By your definition, the greatest commandment is to
love God with all yout heart, and to
love your
neighbor as yourself, then you
say that
loving God means keeping His commandments.
Jesus
says to
love our
neighbors as ourselves.
«So he answered and
said, ««You shall
love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,» and «your
neighbor as yourself.»»
Only then can the relationship between God and God's people be of such direct intimacy
as to make the pious attempt of others to serve
as intermediaries seem like a meddling intrusion upon married
love: «No longer shall each man teach his
neighbor and each his brother
saying «Know the Lord,» for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.»
Then, for good measure, recalling the questioners to the genius of prophetic Judaism, he
said: The second commandment is this: you shall
love your
neighbor as yourself.