What
is a neighbor?
Is
our neighbor someone that lives close by or anyone?
Let’s
keep this simple!
Jesus
loves everyone!
The
Lord our God loves everyone, we are to love everyone!
The
things the Lord hates is not the person but the source behind an individual.
Just
as Jesus loves we are to love.
All
people are Gods creation, if we are to dislike or hate someone it is a sin! If
we dislike or hate someone we are going against Gods creation.
Therefore
a neighbor is anyone, not just someone across the street or next door.
Matthew 19;19
thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Luke
10;27
And
he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor
as yourself.”
John
13;34-35
A
new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved
you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My
disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Exodus
20;16
“You
shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."
Exodus
20;17
“You
shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s
wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or
anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Leviticus
19;15
‘You
shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor
defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Leviticus
19;16
You
shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you are not to act
against the life of your neighbor; I am the Lord.
Leviticus
19;17
‘You
shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove
your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him.
Leviticus
19;18
You
shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people,
but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy
5;20
‘You
shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Deuteronomy
27;17
‘Cursed
is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall
say, ‘Amen.’
Psalm
101;5
Whoever
secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; No one who has a
haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.
Proverbs
3;28
Do
not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come back, And tomorrow I will give it,”
When you have it with you.
Proverbs
3;29
Do
not devise harm against your neighbor, While he lives securely beside
you.
Proverbs
6;3
Do
this then, my son, and deliver yourself; Since you have come into the hand of
your neighbor, Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor.
Proverbs
11;12
He
who despises his neighbor lacks sense, But a man of understanding keeps
silent.
Proverbs
14;20
The
poor is hated even by his neighbor, But those who love the rich are
many.
Proverbs
25;17
Let
your foot rarely be in your neighbor’s house, Or he will become weary of
you and hate you.
Proverbs
27;10
Do
not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, And do not go to your
brother’s house in the day of your calamity; Better is a neighbor who is
near than a brother far away.
Jeremiah
9;5
“Everyone
deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth, They have taught
their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquity.
Ezekiel
22;12
"In
you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and profits,
and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have
forgotten Me,” declares the Lord God.
Matthew
5;43
“You
have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your
enemy.’
Matthew
19;19
Honor
your father and mother; and You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Mark
12;31
The
second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no
other commandment greater than these.”
Mark
12;33
"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 himself, is much more than all
burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Romans
13;8
Owe
nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor
has fulfilled the law.
Romans
15;2
Each
of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.
James
4;12
There
is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to
destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?