Loving one’s neighbor is named by Jesus as the second greatest commandment, inseparable from loving God. This page gathers verified verses on loving your neighbor.
Every verse below is drawn from a verified King James Version text.
Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
Proverbs 3:28
Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
Proverbs 3:29
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
Isaiah 41:6
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
James 2:8
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31
And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark 12:33
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Psalms 31:11
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Romans 13:9
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:10
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 4:25
The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
John 9:8
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalms 80:6
Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
2 Kings 4:3
And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.
Joshua 9:16
But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
Exodus 3:22
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Exodus 20:17
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Exodus 12:4
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Job 12:4
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
Jeremiah 5:8
All verses are quoted from the King James Version (KJV), a public-domain translation.
Matthew 22:39’s instruction to “love thy neighbour as thyself” is named directly alongside loving God as the two commandments the entire law hangs on.
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Every verse on this page is drawn from the King James Version, a public-domain translation available in full at Blue Letter Bible for anyone who wants to study the wider context.
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Loving your neighbor is treated in Scripture as inseparable from loving God, not a secondary or optional command.