Bible Verses About Loving Your Neighbor

1. “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

2. Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

3. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

4. He answered, “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.”

5. Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?” He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

6. However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

7. If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

8. Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

9. Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

10. each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

11. And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Verses quoted from the World English Bible (public domain).

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