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This verse is the second command within Matthew 22:37-40 :
"And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:39

Commonly, loving our neighbor would include: sharing with the poor and the alien; compassion and absolute honesty and justice in our relationships with others; impartiality; a refusal to be a party to gossip or slander; an absence of malice towards anyone and a refusal to bear a grudge; taking care never to put another’s life at risk and never taking private vengeance upon another.
It is also interesting to note that when we have an issue with anyone, we should strive to make it right by going to him or her directly. James calls this the “royal law” (James 2:8).

Our Lord taught that we should do to others as we would have them do to us (Matthew 7:12).This verse leads into the Golden Rule which says to actively pursue and treat others as we would like to be treated in all things.
The Golden Rule as stated by Jesus is radically different in that it is an active, positive command to do good to others, as opposed to the negative, restraining commands to not hurt others. The command to love is what separates the Christian ethic from every other system’s ethic. In fact, the Bible is so radical in its command to actively love that Christians are told to love even their enemies, something unheard of in other religions (Matthew 5:43-44; cf. Exodus 23:4-5).

Obeying the Christian ethic and imperative to love others is a mark of a true Christian (John 13:35). In fact, Christians cannot even claim to love God if they don’t actively love other people as well because, “If someone says, ‘I love God’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1 John 4:20).
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forty-foursunsets's avatar
Is that verse KJV cause its a bit longer in words in my bible but it pretty much means the same thing i guess, just wanderin if its KJV or not :D
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