From Nave’s Topical Bible
Neighbor
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 28Passages listed
- 15Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningExodus 20:16Exodus 23:4Exodus 23:5Leviticus 6:2–5Leviticus 19:13Leviticus 19:16–18Deuteronomy 22:1–4Psalms 15:1–3Proverbs 3:28Proverbs 3:29Isaiah 58:6–14Jeremiah 22:13Zechariah 8:16Zechariah 8:17Matthew 7:12Matthew 19:19Matthew 22:39Matthew 25:34–46Mark 12:31Luke 10:25–37
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The passages, in Bible order (28)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 20:16
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Commentary on Exodus 20:161 voice
Here is prohibited the lie that is harmful to one's neighbor. And according to the general understanding, every pernicious lie is here prohibited: and it is to be understood that every lie is evil. Augustine distinguishes and says that there is the officious, jocose, and …
Bonaventure· Collationes de Decem Praeceptis, Collation 7, 1257Patristic
- Exodus 23:4
If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
Commentary on Exodus 23:41 voice
A reputation for nobility follows the refusal to remember ills and leads to the cessation of hostility. From this we become disposed to concord, and concord leads to happiness. If you catch anyone you regard as a traditional enemy acting stupidly and irrationally out of desire or temper, turn him toward good behavior.
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 2, 215Patristic
- Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.
Commentary on Exodus 23:52 voices
The Lord tells us to relieve and lighten the burden of beasts of burden, even when they belong to our enemies. He is teaching us at a distance not to take pleasure in the misfortunes of others and not to laugh at our enemies. He wants to teach those who have exercised themselves in these disciplines to pray for their enemies.
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 2, 215Patristic
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Leviticus 6:2–5
“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
Commentary on Leviticus 6:2–52 voices
Lie unto his neighbor, etc. - This must refer to a case in which a person delivered his property to his neighbor to be preserved for him, and took no witness to attest the delivery of the goods; such a person therefore might deny that he had ever received such goods, for he who had deposited them with him could bring no proof of the delivery.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Leviticus 19:13
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
Commentary on Leviticus 19:131 voice
Let no one deny the hireling the wage he is owed, since we too are hirelings of our God, and from him we look forward to the reward of our labor. And if you indeed, whatever type of businessman you are, deny your hireling a monetary payment that is a perishable trifle, you shall be denied the reward of heaven that has been promised. You shall not defraud, as the law says, the hireling of his pay.
Ambrose of Milan· LETTER 62 (19).3, 397Patristic
- Leviticus 19:16–18
You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
Commentary on Leviticus 19:16–181 voice
Thou shall not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 22:1–4
If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:1–41 voice
Scripture teaches us by means of natural fellowship to treat the object found as a trust and not to hold hatred of an enemy.
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 2, 215Patristic
- Psalms 15:1–3
O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain?
Commentary on Psalms 15:1–31 voice
The fourteenth psalm has been read at just the right moment; and it has come about in due order in such a way that it almost seems to have been read on purpose. The psalm was read in order: I think it has been brought about by God's dispensation that what was profitable to you should be recited today in the sequence of exposition. The fourteenth psalm has been read, which is titled A Psalm of David. But our David is Christ, as we have often said.
Jerome· Homily 5, on Psalm 14, 420Patristic
- Proverbs 3:28
Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.
Commentary on Proverbs 3:281 voice
"Do not say to your neighbor, 'Go, and come back,' etc. This command is given not only about someone asking for alms but that we should be willing and ready to give generously and promptly. Likewise, all the commands of Christ, who said: 'You are …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
- Proverbs 3:29
Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.
Commentary on Proverbs 3:291 voice
Devise not evil against thy neighbour,.... Or, "plough not evil" (i); turn not up thy heart to find evil against thy neighbour, as the earth is turned up by the plough; see Hos 10:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 58:6–14
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
Commentary on Isaiah 58:6–141 voice
(Verses 6, 7.) Isn't this the fast that I have chosen? To loosen the chains of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Isn't it to share your bread with the hungry, and to bring the poor who are cast out into your house? When you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house?
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
Commentary on Jeremiah 22:132 voices
(Verse 12 and following) Woe to him who builds his house with injustice, and his upper rooms without justice. He oppresses his neighbor in vain, and does not pay him his wages. He says, 'I will build for myself a spacious house with large upper rooms.' He opens windows for himself, and makes it with cedar and paints it with vermilion. Are you going to reign because you have luxury? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice when he was prospering?
Jerome· Commentary on Jeremiah, 420Patristic
But such a house as this sensual persons, they who dwell in cieled houses and delight in chased silver, do not build. For as they despise pure silver, so also they despise simple dwellings. They enlarge the site of their houses, they add more and more, joining house to house and farm to farm, they dig up the ground; so that the very earth itself gives way to their habitations, and like sons of the earth they are laid up within her womb, and hidden in her bowels.
Ambrose of Milan· Letter 30.4, 397Patristic
- Zechariah 8:16
These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
Commentary on Zechariah 8:161 voice
(Verse 16, 17) These are the words you shall do: Speak truth, each one with his neighbor. Give judgment of truth and peace in your gates. And let none of you think evil in your hearts against his neighbor. And love not a false oath. For all these are the things that I hate, says the Lord. LXX: These are the words you shall do: Speak truth, each one with his neighbor. Give judgment of peace and justice in your gates. And let none of you think evil against his neighbor in your hearts. And love not a false oath.
Jerome· Commentary on Zechariah, 420Patristic
- Zechariah 8:17
do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.
Commentary on Zechariah 8:172 voices
(Verse 16, 17) These are the words you shall do: Speak truth, each one with his neighbor. Give judgment of truth and peace in your gates. And let none of you think evil in your hearts against his neighbor. And love not a false oath. For all these are the things that I hate, says the Lord. LXX: These are the words you shall do: Speak truth, each one with his neighbor. Give judgment of peace and justice in your gates. And let none of you think evil against his neighbor in your hearts. And love not a false oath.
Jerome· Commentary on Zechariah, 420Patristic
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Matthew 7:12
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.
Commentary on Matthew 7:122 voices
(Ver. 11, 12.) So if you, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. It should be noted that when he referred to the apostles as evil, unless perhaps under the guise of the apostles the entire race of men is condemned, whose hearts are inclined to evil from infancy in comparison to divine mercy.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
Rather is the nature preserved, though the life blushes; nor does Christ know other men than those with reference to whom He says, "Whom do men say that I am? " And, "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye likewise so to, them." Consider whether He may not have I preserved a race such that He is looking for a testimony to Himself from them, as well as l consisting of those on whom He enjoins the interchange of righteous dealing.
Tertullian· Scorpiace, 220Patristic
- Matthew 19:19
honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Commentary on Matthew 19:192 voices
(Verse 18, 19.) But if you want to enter life, keep the commandments. He said to him, 'Which ones?' Jesus replied, 'You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony. Honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.'
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
Are we to paint ourselves out that our neighbours may perish? Where, then, is (the command), "Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself? " "Care not merely about your own (things), but (about your) neighbour's? " No enunciation of the Holy Spirit ought to be (confined) to the subject immediately in hand merely, and not applied and carried out with a view to every occasion to which its application is useful.
Tertullian· On the Apparel of Women Book II, 220Patristic
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