Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.

If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.

“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor …

You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD. …

If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother. …

A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain? …

Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”—when you already have the means.

Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.

Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke? …

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

…do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.

In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.

…honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”

And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. …

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” …

The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.

Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.