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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 20:16

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 23:4, 5

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.

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 6:2–5

“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 / or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit— / once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 19:13, 16–18

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. / Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 22:1–4

If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother. / If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him. / And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 15:1–3

A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain? / He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart, / who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 3:28, 29

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.

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 58:6–14

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? / Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? / Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 22:13

“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,

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Zechariah 8:16, 17

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.

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 7:12

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.

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 19:19

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

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 22:39

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

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 25:34–46

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. / For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, / I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 12:31

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

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 10:25–37

One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” / “What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?” / He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 13:9, 10

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.

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 15:2

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

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 5:14

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

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 6:10

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

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 13:3

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

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Neighbor: General Scriptures Concerning James 2:8, 9

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.

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