The key is …as yourself.


This is one of my favorite scripture verses applies my spiritual inner daily.

Galatians 5:14 TLV

For the whole Torah can be summed up in a single saying: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 

This above verse emphasized by Yeshua haMashiyach is the Living Word/Torah quoted from TaNaKH (OT) Leviticus 19:18:

18 You are not to take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.  I am Adonai.

There are many scripture verses from TaNaKH (OT) to Brit Chadasha (NT). Matthew 5:43, Matthew 22:39, Luke 10:27, Mark 12:31, Romans 13:8-10, James 2:8, 1 John 3:14. The key is ..as yourself.

Matthew 22:34-40 TLV The Greatest Mitzvot (Commandments)

34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that Yeshua had silenced the Sadducees, gathered together in one place. 35 And testing Him, one of them, a lawyer, asked, 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Torah?”

37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ [a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ [b] 40 The entire Torah and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Footnotes

  1. [a] Matthew 22:38 cf. Deut. 6:5, v’ahavta.
  2. [b] Matthew 22:40 Lev. 19:18b, v’ahavta l’reiacha kamocha.