By my search, here's all the Biblical accounts of "love your neighbor as yourself" with a brief encouragement at the end.
Leviticus 19:18 - "You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord."
Matthew 19:19 - "Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Matthew 22:39 - "And the second is like it: 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."
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.'"
Romans 13:9 - "For the commandments, 'You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,' and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
Galatians 5:14 - "For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
James 2:8 - "If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' you are doing well."
So, love your neighbor as yourself. In Luke 10:25-37, there's this guy, who says to Jesus "So, who is my neighbor?" Jesus responds by telling the parable of the Good Samaritan, which begins with a traveller getting stripped, beaten, robbed and left half dead. At the end of the story, Jesus then asks the guy this question, "[Who]...proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?" The answer, "The One who showed him mercy."
Friends, Jesus is the One who has shown mercy to us who have been beaten down by all the things that befall us in life. Jesus is our Good Samaritan. Jesus is the neighbor who has shown us mercy. So if we're supposed to "love your neighbor as yourself." What we're supposed to do is love Jesus as we would ourself. We're supposed to love Jesus as if he is our very life......because He is!
Praise God!
(For an archive of "Day of Praise", please visit my daughter Calley's website at http://dayofpraisepc.blogspot.com/?m=1)
Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson
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