What Does the Bible Say About Loving Your Neighbors?

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Mark 2:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”

1 John 5:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Isaiah 10:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth? Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury! ...

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Romans 5:6-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Luke 4:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”

12 Bible Verses about Loving Your Neighbors

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 10 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 2:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 5:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 10:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 5:6-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 4:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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12 Bible Verses about Loving Your Neighbors

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Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 10 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 2:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 5:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 10:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 5:6-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 4:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote