The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.
When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.
You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.