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100 Bible Verses about Neighbors

Mark 12:31 ESV / 406 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

James 2:8 ESV / 359 helpful votes

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Romans 15:2 ESV / 354 helpful votes

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 343 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 323 helpful votes

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 240 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Romans 13:10 ESV / 237 helpful votes

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Luke 10:27 ESV / 236 helpful votes

And he answered, “You shall 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 your neighbor as yourself.”

Proverbs 3:29 ESV / 216 helpful votes

Do not plan evil against your neighbor, who dwells trustingly beside you.

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 206 helpful votes

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 202 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Luke 6:31 ESV / 197 helpful votes

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 196 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 192 helpful votes

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Proverbs 25:17-18 ESV / 183 helpful votes

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you. A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Romans 13:9 ESV / 172 helpful votes

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

1 John 3:17 ESV / 151 helpful votes

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Leviticus 19:16-18 ESV / 139 helpful votes

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord. “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:24 ESV / 133 helpful votes

Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 128 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 John 3:11 ESV / 126 helpful votes

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

James 1:27 ESV / 125 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Hebrews 13:1-2 ESV / 120 helpful votes

Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 119 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 118 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 116 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 115 helpful votes

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall 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 your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ...

Isaiah 58:6-14 ESV / 114 helpful votes

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 110 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.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 109 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 109 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 108 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 107 helpful votes

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 107 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 13:34 ESV / 107 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Zechariah 8:16 ESV / 106 helpful votes

These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

Romans 13:9-10 ESV / 104 helpful votes

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 104 helpful votes

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Luke 6:38 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 98 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 95 helpful votes

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Exodus 20:17 ESV / 95 helpful votes

“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

Romans 12:18 ESV / 93 helpful votes

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

1 John 4:11 ESV / 90 helpful votes

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Romans 14:13 ESV / 90 helpful votes

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

Matthew 22:37-40 ESV / 90 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. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 5:43 ESV / 90 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

John 15:12 ESV / 89 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

1 John 4:21 ESV / 88 helpful votes

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Mark 12:33 ESV / 86 helpful votes

And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Luke 10:29 ESV / 84 helpful votes

But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Romans 12:2 ESV / 83 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 82 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.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 81 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 14:5 ESV / 79 helpful votes

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Luke 10:36 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?”

Mark 12:30 ESV / 79 helpful votes

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Zechariah 8:17 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the Lord.”

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

James 2:14-17 ESV / 78 helpful votes

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Philippians 2:2 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

John 15:13 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 74 helpful votes

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Galatians 5:2 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

Romans 2:1 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.

Job 6:14 ESV / 70 helpful votes

“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Matthew 5:42 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

Philippians 2:4 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 66 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 66 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Proverbs 27:10 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

Leviticus 19:34 ESV / 66 helpful votes

You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 22:2-3 ESV / 66 helpful votes

If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Romans 15:1 ESV / 63 helpful votes

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

James 4:12 ESV / 62 helpful votes

There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 62 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

James 4:2 ESV / 58 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Isaiah 58:6 ESV / 58 helpful votes

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

1 John 4:18 ESV / 57 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Hebrews 13:3 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 55 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Ecclesiastes 4:1-16 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them. And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive. But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun. Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh. ...

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 55 helpful votes

“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 54 helpful votes

For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

Exodus 20:2 ESV / 54 helpful votes

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 53 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Proverbs 3:28 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 52 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Matthew 7:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Leviticus 19:16 ESV / 50 helpful votes

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 47 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 20:26-27 ESV / 46 helpful votes

It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,

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