Gospel.com Topics Feed - Greatest Commandment 2009-10-01T15:17:32-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/greatest+commandment/ Hear, O Israel - a Christian perspective http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2012:28-30&version=NIV 2009-10-01T15:17:32-05:00 When asked to identify the most important commandment, Jesus replied that loving God was the single most important focus of the Christian life. Neighbors in the Bible - a Christian perspective http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+5:14&version=NIV 2009-09-11T13:38:45-05:00 What's the point of God's law? It can be summed up in one phrase: love God and love your neighbor. If you're doing those two things, you're on the right track. Love your neighbor as yourself - a Christian perspective http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2022:38-39&version=NIV 2009-09-11T13:30:33-05:00 The so-called "Golden Rule" has its basis here, in Jesus' command that we are to love others as we would like to be loved in turn. "Love the Lord your God" in the Bible: Matthew 22:36-40 http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2022:36-40&version=NIV 2009-09-10T17:42:54-05:00 The Old Testament contains many laws and rules, the most famous being the Ten Commandments. But Jesus said that all of those rules boiled down to two things: love God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself. If our adherence to rules or commandments isn't producing these two things, we've missed the entire point. Greatest commandment - a Christian perspective http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2022:37-38&version=NIV 2009-09-02T16:35:31-05:00 Jesus was once asked what he thought was the greatest commandment. He replied that it was to love God with all your heart, soul and mind. He said that it was the greatest and the first commandment. From it we can extrapolate the rest of Christianity. Love thy neighbor - a Christian perspective http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2013:9&version=KJV 2009-08-06T17:31:51-05:00 When asked to summarize God's law, Jesus boiled it all down to love: love for God and love for our neighbor. We ought to love others more than we love ourselves. "Love your neighbor" in the Bible: Matthew 22:37-40 http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2022:37-40&version=NIV 2009-07-23T11:43:20-05:00 Jesus summarizes the entirety of God's law in two simple commands: love God, and love your neighbor. Love for our neighbor should flow naturally out of our love for God. Neighbor in the Bible: Mark 12:28-31 http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2012:28-31&version=NIV 2009-07-20T16:45:41-05:00 When asked to name the most important commandment, Jesus boiled the entire law down to two points: love God, and love your neighbor. Our love for those around us should be a natural outpouring of our love for God. "Love your neighbor" in the Bible: Matthew 22:37-40 http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt.22.37-Matt.22.40&version=NIV 2009-07-15T11:35:03-05:00 We're all heard the Biblical commend to "love your neighbor as yourself"--but have you ever stopped to think about how profoundly this attitude would change the world if we all carried it out? Jesus summed up the entire point of God's law in two phrases, and both of them--loving God, and loving our neighbors--are all about putting the needs of others before our own.