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UNDERSTANDINGTHE NEW TESTAMENT

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees,

they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a

question to test him. "Teacher, which is the great commandment

in the Law?" 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 22:34-40 ESV

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And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing

with one another, and seeing that he answered them well,

asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of

all?" Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O

Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 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.'

Mark 12:28-30 ESV

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The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

There is no other commandment greater than these." And the

scribe said to him, "You are right, Teacher. You have truly said

that he is one, and there is no other besides him. 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."

Mark 12:31-33 ESV

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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not

love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have

prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all

knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,

but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if

I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain

nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast;

it is not arrogant or rude.

1 Corinthians 13:1-5 ESV

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It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or

resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices

with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for

prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will

cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in

part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes,

the partial will pass away.


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When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I

thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face

to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know

fully, even as I have been fully known. So now

faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the

greatest of these is love.


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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,

patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, self-control; against such

things there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV

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"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall

love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul

and with all your might. And these words that I command you

today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to

your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house,

and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and

when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and

they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Deuteronomy 6:4-8 ESV

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"When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not

reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you

gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall

not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather

the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them

for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your

God. "You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you

shall not lie to one another.

Leviticus 19:9-11 ESV

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You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the

name of your God: I am the Lord. "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. You shall not curse

the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall

fear your God: I am the Lord. "You shall do no injustice in court.

You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in

righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.


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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.


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If you really fulfill the royal law according to the

Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as

yourself," you are doing well.

James 2:8 ESV

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For the whole law is fulfilled in one word:

"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."


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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.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV

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By this we know love, that he laid down his

life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives

for the brothers. 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?

1 John 3:16-17 ESV

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Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever

loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not

love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God

was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the

world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we

have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the

propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought

to love one another.

1 John 4:7-11 ESV

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No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us

and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him

and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have

seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of

the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God

abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to

believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever

abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 4:12-16 ESV

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By this is love perfected with us, so that we

may have confidence for the day of judgment,

because as he is so also are we in this world.

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. 19 We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:17-19 ESV

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If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his

brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love

his brother whom he has seen cannot love God

whom he has not seen. And this

commandment we have from him: whoever

loves God must also love his brother.

1 John 4:20-21 ESV

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