According to scripture, you are to love others as you love yourself.
“For, dear brothers, you have been given freedom: not freedom to do wrong, but freedom to love and serve each other. For the whole Law can be summed up in this one command: ‘Love others as you love yourself’” (Galatians 5:13-14 TLB).
The thought is that when you love others as you love yourself, you will not want to do any harm to them.
“Pay all your debts except the debt of love for others—never finish paying that! For if you love them, you will be obeying all of God’s laws, fulfilling all his requirements. If you love your neighbor as much as you love yourself you will not want to harm or cheat him, or kill him or steal from him. And you won’t sin with his wife or want what is his, or do anything else the Ten Commandments say is wrong. All ten are wrapped up in this one, to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Love does no wrong to anyone. That’s why it fully satisfies all of God’s requirements. It is the only law you need (Romans 13:8-10 TLB).
When you love others as you love yourself, the belief is that you will not want to do anything that harms, hurts, or cheats the other person. When you love others as you love yourself, then there would be not one thing that you would want that belongs to them, none of their possessions or their significant other. When you love others as you love yourself, then stealing from them or killing them would never be a thought in your mind. This is why the scriptures says, “For the whole Law can be summed up in this one command.” When you “love your neighbor as you love yourself,” you put all of God’s commandments into one commandment where “love supposedly does no wrong to anyone.”
“And so I am giving a new commandment to you now—love each other just as much as I love you. Your strong love for each other will prove to the world that you are my disciples” (John 13:34-35 TLB).
This is why Jesus said that we have “a new commandment,” a commandment to love each other. If we each love one another as much as Jesus loved us, then we too would give the ultimate sacrifice for each other.
“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Live within my love. When you obey me you are living in my love, just as I obey my Father and live in his love. I have told you this so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your cup of joy will overflow! I demand that you love each other as much as I love you. And here is how to measure it—the greatest love is shown when a person lays down his life for his friends; 1and you are my friends if you obey me” (John 15:9-14 TLB).
There is no greater love that one person can express for another then to give this life for them. Those who understand this commandment, “to love one another,” have a cup that is truly filled with the joy of Christ. And yes, that cup of joy does overflow. Think about what this type of love could do if every believer in the body of Christ would adhere to it. It could unite the body of Christ, with one purpose. Then think what a united body of believers could do. We could change the world. One new commandment given by the one who showed the world what it meant, “to love your neighbor as you love yourself.”
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Enjoy your blessings - KW
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