Loving neighbor
Do not desire and try to take your neighbor’s wife. ~ Deuteronomy 5:21 (CEB)
Love doesn’t do anything wrong to a neighbor... ~ Romans 13:10 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
Godly love prioritizes the well-being of neighbor.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for giving good neighbors to me. Even with good neighbors, though, I don't usually make them a priority. Flip my priorites so that my wants and needs become secondary to those of my neighbors. I'm going to learn how to love my neighbor with the same kind of energy that I put into my own self. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
