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20 Bible Verses About Loving Others

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  • Jesus names “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” from Leviticus 19:18, as the second great commandment, and Romans 13:8-10 and Galatians 5:14 both say it fulfils the law.
  • John 13:34 sets the measure of love as “just as I have loved you,” and John 15:13 and 1 John 3:16 describe that love as laying down one’s life.
  • Luke 10 answers “And who is my neighbor?” with a Samaritan who cares for an injured man whom a priest and a Levite passed by.
  • Luke 6:35 extends the command to enemies and grounds it in God’s kindness “to the ungrateful and the evil.”
  • James 2:15-16 and 1 John 3:17-18 say that love which gives nothing to someone in need is only words.

The Bible commands love for others as the second great commandment: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39). At supper with his disciples Jesus gives the measure, “just as I have loved you” (John 13:34). Jesus answers “And who is my neighbor?” with the story of a Samaritan (Luke 10:33-34) and extends the command to enemies (Luke 6:35). John 15:13 and 1 John 3:16-18 describe love as laying down one’s life, and 1 Corinthians 13:4 describes it at…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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