On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.
on these--the two commands--all the law and the prophets do hang.'
On these two commandments the whole law and the prophets hang.
Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices4
After this you ask how it is that "all the law and the prophets depend upon these two commands." For it seems that the texts show us that whatever was written in Exodus or Leviticus or Numbers or Deuteronomy depend "upon these two commands." But how is the law which regards lepers or the continual flow of blood or the menstruation of women dependent "upon these two commands"?
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
On these two - hang all the law and the prophets - They are like the first and last links of a chain, all the intermediate ones depend on them. True religion begins and ends in love to God and man. These are the two grand links that unite God to man, man to his fellows, and men again to God.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
This will aggravate the misery of sinners, that they might have had happiness for the coming for, but it was their own act and deed to refuse it. I would, and ye would not.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Romans 13:9The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the…
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Matthew 7:12In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
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Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
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The verses this one reaches9
The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
We love because He first loved us.
If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
