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31And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Mark 12:31

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. …

  • And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

  • Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

  • And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

  • Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 28-34)

The scribes and Pharisees were (however bad otherwise) enemies to the Sadducees; now one would have expected that, when they heard Christ argue so well against the Sadducees, they would have countenanced him, as they did Paul when he appeared against the Sadducees (Acts 23:9); but it had not the effect: because he did not fall in with them in the ceremonials of religion, he agreeing with them in t…

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