But there is a second to set alongside it: "Love others as well as you love yourself.' These two commands are pegs; everything in God's Law and the Prophets hangs from them."
Matthew 22: 39-40 (The Message)
"The Bible knows nothing of a religion defined by what a person does inwardly in the privacy of thought or feeling, or apart from others on a lonely retreat. When Jesus was asked what the great commandment was, he said, "Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence." Then immediately, before anyone could go off and make a private religion out of it ("I come to the garden alone"), rivited it to another: "There is a second to set alongside it: 'Love others as well as ou love yourself'.""
Loving Others, God's Message for Each Day by Eugene Peterson.
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