KJV King James Version
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
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Matthew 7:12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
ASV American Standard Version
All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
Surrounding context — Matthew 7
9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
13 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:
14 Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ΠάνταG3956 · pasallοὖνG3767 · ountherefore/thenὅσαG3745 · hososjust as/how muchἐὰνG1437 · eanifθέλητεG2309 · thelōto will/desireἵναG2443 · hinain order that/toποιῶσινG4160 · poieōto do/make: doὑμῖνG4771 · suyouοἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoἄνθρωποι,G444 · anthrōposa humanοὕτωςG3779 · ohutō, ohutōsthus(-ly)καὶG2532 · kaiandὑμεῖςG4771 · suyouποιεῖτεG4160 · poieōto do/make: doαὐτοῖς·G846 · autosit/s/heοὗτοςG3778 · ohutosthis/he/she/itγάρG1063 · garforἐστινG1510 · eimito beὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoνόμοςG3551 · nomoslawκαὶG2532 · kaiandοἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoπροφῆται.¶G4396 · prophētēsprophet
Cross-references
Luke 6:31And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.Romans 13:8-10Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.Galatians 5:13-14For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.Mark 12:29-34And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:Leviticus 19:18Thou 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.Matthew 22:39-40And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Micah 6:8He 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?Zechariah 8:16-17These [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:1 Timothy 1:5Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned:Amos 5:14-15Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.Ezekiel 18:7-8And 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;Malachi 3:5And 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] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.Isaiah 1:17-18Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.Jeremiah 7:5-6For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;Zechariah 7:7-10[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 the plain?James 2:10-13For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.Ezekiel 18:21But 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.
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