Matthew Chapter 22 verse 39 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 22:39

And a second like `unto it' is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
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BBE Matthew 22:39

And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
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DARBY Matthew 22:39

And [the] second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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KJV Matthew 22:39

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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WBT Matthew 22:39


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WEB Matthew 22:39

A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
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YLT Matthew 22:39

and the second `is' like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;
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Matthew 22 : 39 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 39. - The second. The scribe had not asked any question about a second commandment: but Christ is not satisfied with propounding an abstract proposition; he shows how this great precept is to be made practical, how one command involves and leads to the other. Like unto it; ὁμοία αὐτῇ: in nature and extent, of universal obligation, pure and unselfish. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. From Leviticus 19:18. The verb, both here and ver. 37, is ἀγαπήσεις, which implies, not mere animal or worldly affection (φιλέω), but love from the highest moral considerations, without self-interest, holy. The Latins indicated this difference by amo and diligo. Our "neighbour" is every one with whom we are concerned, i.e. virtually all men. He is to be loved because he is God's image and likeness, heir of the same hope as we ourselves, and presented to us as the object on and by which we are to show the reality of our love to God. "This commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also" (1 John 4:21). And for the measure of our love to man, we have Christ's word in another place (Matthew 7:12), "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(39) Thou shalt love thy neighbour.--The words were found, strangely enough, in the book which is, for the most part, pre-eminently ceremonial (Leviticus 19:18), and it is to the credit of the Pharisees, as ethical teachers, that they, too, had drawn the law, as our Lord now drew it, from its comparative obscurity, and gave it a place of dignity second only to that of the first and great commandment.