Love thy Neighbor

​"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."—Matthew 19:19

Whom am I to love? "My neighbour."What am I to do? I am to love him. How am I to do it? I am to love him as myself.

By the word neighbour, we are to understand any person who is near us. It comes from two old words, nae or near, (near) and buer, (to dwell) persons residing, or being near us, and if any one in the world is near us, he is our neighbour. The Samaritan, when he saw the wounded man on the road to Jericho, felt that he was in his neighbourhood, and that therefore he was his neighbour, and he was bound to love him. "Love thy neighbour." 

​Charles Spurgeon

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