Matthew 22:40 Cross References
Matthew 22:40
40: All the other commandments and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments."
Romans 13:9
- For the commandments against adultery and murder and stealing and coveting--and any other commandment--are all summed up in this one commandment: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Matthew 7:12
- "Do for others what you would like them to do for you. This is a summary of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.
1 John 4:19
- We love each other as a result of his loving us first.
- If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we have not seen?
- And God himself has commanded that we must love not only him but our Christian brothers and sisters, too.
1 John 4:7
- Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
- But anyone who does not love does not know God--for God is love.
- God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.
- This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
- Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.
John 1:17
- For the law was given through Moses; God's unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.
James 2:8
- Yes indeed, it is good when you truly obey our Lord's royal command found in the Scriptures: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
1 Timothy 1:5
- The purpose of my instruction is that all the Christians there would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and sincere faith.
Romans 3:19
- Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses and to bring the entire world into judgment before God.
- For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.
- But now God has shown us a different way of being right in his sight--not by obeying the law but by the way promised in the Scriptures long ago.