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The Golden Rule may not be perverted to justify an evil means. St. Augustine noticed this problem and commented on how many redactors rephrased this verse as "whatsoever good you desire…" [2] The concluding phrase indicates that Jesus is here presenting the Golden Rule as a valid summary for the entirety of moral law.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: The World English Bible translates the passage as: Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the
Love Thy Neighbor or Love Thy Neighbour refers to the Biblical phrase "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" from the Book of Leviticus 19:18 in the Hebrew Bible about the ethic of reciprocity known as the Golden Rule or the Great Commandment.
"Golden Rule Sign" that hung above the door of the employees' entrance to the Acme Sucker Rod Factory in Toledo, Ohio, 1913. The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one would want to be treated by them. It is sometimes called an ethics of reciprocity, meaning that you should reciprocate to others how you would like them to treat ...
Included in this chapter is the Golden Rule, (verse 18) which states, (Hebrew: ואהבת לרעך כמוך ): You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your kinsfolk. Love your neighbor as yourself: I am the L ORD. —
Matthew, unlike Luke's version does not give a reason for the house to fall, rather the reason is given for why the house built on stone survives. [1] "Great was its fall" may well have been a proverbial term for complete destruction. [2] This warning of doom and destruction is the final line of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? The World English Bible translates the passage as: Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
The dominant reading is that the two expressions are both referring to the same thing and the same group of people. To Nolland this verse is not an attack on any particular group, but rather a continuation of the theme of God and Mammon begun at Matthew 6:24 and that verse is an attack on wasteful