Editing Golden Rule (section)

===== New Testament =====
The Golden Rule was proclaimed by [[Jesus of Nazareth]]<ref>{{sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Matthew|chapter=7|verse=12}}; see also {{sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Luke|chapter=6|verse=31}}</ref> during his [[Sermon on the Mount]] and described by him as the second great commandment. The common English phrasing is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Various applications of the Golden Rule are stated positively numerous times in the [[Old Testament]]: "You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Bible Gateway passage: Leviticus 19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2019&version=NRSVUE |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Bible Gateway |language=en |archive-date=14 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240614052556/https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2019&version=NRSVUE |url-status=live }}</ref> Or, in Leviticus 19:34: "The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the native-born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God."<ref name=":0" /> These two examples are given in the [[Septuagint]] as follows: "And thy hand shall not avenge thee; and thou shalt not be angry with the children of thy people; and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; I am the Lord." and "The stranger that comes to you shall be among you as the native, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brenton Septuagint Translation Leviticus 19 |url=https://ebible.org/eng-Brenton/LEV19.htm |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=ebible.org |archive-date=28 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428052253/http://ebible.org/eng-Brenton/LEV19.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

Two passages in the [[New Testament]] quote [[Jesus|Jesus of Nazareth]] espousing the positive form of the Golden rule:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Matthew 7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207&version=NRSVUE |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Bible Gateway |language=en}}</ref>

{{blockquote|"In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the Law and the Prophets."|[[Matthew 7:12]]|title=[[New Revised Standard Version]], Updated Edition (NRSVUE)}}
{{blockquote|Do to others as you would have them do to you.|Luke 6:31|title=[[New Revised Standard Version]], Updated Edition (NRSVUE)}}

A similar passage, a parallel to the [[Great Commandment]], is to be found later in the [[Gospel of Luke]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bible Gateway passage: Luke 10 – New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2010&version=NRSVUE |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Bible Gateway |language=en |archive-date=20 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220101142/https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2010&version=NRSVUE |url-status=live }}</ref>

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An expert in the law stood up to test him [Jesus]. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?"

He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself."

And he said to him, "You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live."|source=Luke 10:25–28, [[New Revised Standard Version]], Updated Edition (NRSVUE)}}

The passage in the book of Luke then continues with Jesus answering the question, "Who is my neighbor?", by telling the parable of the [[Good Samaritan]], which John Wesley interprets as meaning that "your neighbor" is anyone in need.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.christnotes.org/commentary.php?b=42&c=10&com=wes |title=John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on Luke 10 |publisher=Christnotes.org |access-date=12 September 2013 |archive-date=27 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527094026/http://www.christnotes.org/commentary.php?com=wes&b=42&c=10 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Jesus' teaching goes beyond the negative formulation of not doing what one would not like done to themselves, to the positive formulation of actively doing good to another that, if the situations were reversed, one would desire that the other would do for them. This formulation, as indicated in the parable of the Good Samaritan, emphasizes the needs for positive action that brings benefit to another, not simply restraining oneself from negative activities that hurt another.<ref>Moore, ''Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era'', Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1927–1930; Vol. 2, p. 87, Vol. 3, p. 180.</ref>

In one passage of the [[New Testament]], [[Paul the Apostle]] refers to the golden rule, restating Jesus' second commandment:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Galatians 5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%205&version=NRSVUE |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Bible Gateway |language=en |archive-date=4 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304052235/https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%205&version=NRSVUE |url-status=live }}</ref>

{{blockquote|For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."|Galatians 5:14|title=[[New Revised Standard Version]], Updated Edition (NRSVUE)}}

St. Paul also comments on the golden rule in the [[Epistle to the Romans]]:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bible Gateway passage: Romans 13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2013&version=NRSVUE |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Bible Gateway |language=en |archive-date=26 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326022119/https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2013&version=NRSVUE |url-status=live }}</ref>

{{blockquote|
Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery; you shall not murder; you shall not steal; you shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."|author=Romans 13:8–9|title=[[New Revised Standard Version]], Updated Edition (NRSVUE)}}