18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Justice and Mercy
• Love
• Obedience and Disobedience

13 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Sam 30:22 — Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to eve
• 1Thess 3:12 — And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
• 1Tim 1:5 — Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
• Amos 5:14 — Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
• Deut 2:6 — Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
• Eph 6:9 — And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
• Ezek 18:7 — And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
• Ezek 18:21 — But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Gal 5:13 — For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
• Gal 5:14 — For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Gen 14:24 — Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
• Isa 1:17 — Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
• Jas 2:10 — For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
• Jer 7:5 — For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
• Job 16:4 — I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
• Lev 19:18 — Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
• Luke 3:13 — And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
• Luke 6:31 — And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
• Luke 6:31 — And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
• Mal 3:5 — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his
• Mark 12:29 — And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
• Mark 12:31 — And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
• Matt 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
• Matt 22:39 — And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Matt 22:40 — On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
• Mic 6:8 — He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
• Ps 15:3 — He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
• Rom 13:8 — Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
• Rom 13:8 — Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
• Ruth 3:12 — And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
• Zech 7:7 — Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and
• Zech 8:16 — These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: