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“Honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as you love yourself.” — Matthew 19:19 “Train children in the way they should go; when they grow old, they won’t depart from it.”
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. The World English Bible translates the passage as: "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'" The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
Jesus answered, "The first is, '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 mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. ' "
The common English phrasing is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Various applications of the Golden Rule are stated positively numerous times in the Old Testament: "You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD."
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, ‘Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.'” —Matthew 5:48
Matthew 7:12 ("So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."); 19:19 ("‘love your neighbor as yourself.'"); 22:39–40 ("And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.").
Accordingly, the synod at Leipzig in 1869, and the German-Israelitish Union of Congregations in 1885, stood on old historical ground when declaring (Lazarus, "Ethics of Judaism", i. 234, 302) that " 'Love thy neighbor as thyself' is a command of all-embracing love, and is a fundamental principle of the Jewish religion"; and Stade 1888, p. 510a ...
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