Core tenet of Christianity
Love of God and neighbor is the whole law.
The double commandment — the ethic every branch, whatever else it disputes, shares.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Asked to rank six hundred commandments, Jesus answered with two quotations from the Torah — love of God (Deuteronomy) and love of neighbor (Leviticus) — and hung everything else on them. Christian ethics at any density is commentary on that compression.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind; love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 22:37–40, condensed
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
The hungry tigress.
Buddhism · story
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The four gifts.
Jainism · precept
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Show up — for the sick, the stranger, the mourner.
Judaism · precept
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Sarbat da bhala — the good of all.
Sikhism · precept
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Feed whoever arrives.
Yoruba Religion · precept
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Ahimsa — do no harm.
Hinduism · precept
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