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I was recently asked to speak on the

subject, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”

After studying and doing my research, I

was very much amazed at what I found.

For instance, consider that:

Eight times in the Bible we are

commanded to

love thy neighbor

as thyself

.

The phrase,

love thy neighbor as

thyself,

is one of the most repeated

commands in the Bible.

Jesus said: to love God and your

neighbor as yourself

is

more than

all whole burnt offerings and

sacrifices.

—Mark 12:33

Why was it so important for God to

continually remind us throughout

Scripture to love our neighbor as much as

we do ourselves? I think we probably all

know the answer to that. It doesn’t come

naturally for us, and it’s hard! At times,

it’s very, very hard! In fact, loving our

neighbor as our self is so difficult at

times, and beyond our own ability, that

we cannot do it on our own. It’s

impossible! We have to know a higher

power—working within and through

us—Jesus Christ.

Let’s go ahead and read the eight

Scripture passages about loving our

neighbor as our self, and then I would

like to make a few comments. The first

one is found in the Old Testament. The

last seven are found in the New

Testament.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any

grudge against the children of thy

people, but

thou shalt love thy

neighbor as thyself

: I am the

LORD

. —Leviticus 19:18

Honour thy father and thy mother:

and,

Thou shalt love thy neighbor

as thyself

. —

Matthew 19:19

In Mathew 22:35-40, the Bible says

a lawyer walked up to Jesus and

asked Him a question, tempting

Him:

“Master, which is the great

commandment in the law?

Jesus

answered him, saying,

Thou shalt

love the Lord thy God with all thy

heart, and with all thy soul, and

with all thy mind. This is the first

and great commandment. And the

second is like unto it,

Thou shalt

love thy neighbor as thyself

.

Jesus concludes by saying:

On these

two commandments hang all the

law and the prophets.

In Mark 12:28-31,

we are told that

one of the scribes asked Jesus,

“Which is the first commandment of

all?”

Jesus responded by saying:

And thou shalt love the Lord thy

God with all thy heart, and with all

thy soul, and with all thy mind, and

with all thy strength: this is the first

commandment. And the second is

like, namely this,

Thou shalt love

thy neighbor as thyself

. There is

none other commandment greater

than these.

Several verses later, v-33, the scribe

responded with:

“And to love Him

with all the heart, and with all the

Continued on Page 8

Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself

—Joe Keim