Matthew 7:12
Good News Translation
"Do for others what you want them to do for you: this is the meaning of the Law of Moses and of the teachings of the prophets.

New Revised Standard Version
“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.

Contemporary English Version
Treat others as you want them to treat you. This is what the Law and the Prophets are all about.

New American Bible
“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

all.

Luke 6:31 And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner.

for.

Matthew 22:39,40 And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. . . .

Leviticus 19:18 Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.

Isaiah 1:17,18 Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow. . . .

Jeremiah 7:5,6 For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour, . . .

Ezekiel 18:7,8,21 And hath not wronged any man: but hath restored the pledge to the debtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment: . . .

Amos 5:14,15 Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said. . . .

Micah 6:8 I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Zechariah 7:7-10 Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy, both itself and the cities round about it, and there were inhabitants towards the south, and in the plain? . . .

Zechariah 8:16,17 These then are the things, which you shall do: Speak ye truth every one to his neighbour; judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your gates. . . .

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Mark 12:29-34 And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God. . . .

Romans 13:8-10 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law. . . .

Galatians 5:13,14 For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another. . . .

1 Timothy 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.

James 2:10-13 And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all. . . .

Context
Ask, Seek, Knock
11If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him? 12All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets. 13Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:17
Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Matthew 22:40
On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

Luke 6:31
And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner.

Romans 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:10
The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law.

Galatians 5:14
For all the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

James 2:8
If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

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