Do for others what you want them to do for you. This is the "golden rule." Do to others what you would like for them to do to you if your positions were switched. Socrates among the Greeks. Buddha and Confucius among the Orientals, and Hillel among the Jews taught a similar law, but theirs was negative: "Do not do to others what you would not have done to you." Christ taught a POSITIVE DOING!
Verse Matthew 7:12. _THEREFORE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN_]. This is a most sublime precept, and highly worthy of the grandeur and beneficence of the _just_ God who gave it. The general...
ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER ... - This command has been usually called the “Saviour’s golden rule,” a name given to it on account of its great value. All that you “expect” or “desire” of others in similar c...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Judgment of Righteousness.(Matthew 7:1 .) 2. Warning against False Prophets.(Matthew 7:15 .) 3. Warning against False Professors. (Matthew 7:21 .)_ The chapter which follows contai...
MATTHEW 7:12. THE GOLDEN RULE (Luke 6:31). In negative forms the thought is widely found both in Jewish and pagan sources. This loftier positive form we owe to Jesus. It is the quintessence of the ful...
III. THE GOLDEN RULE. 12. THEREFORE. This term indicates. connection, and that what follows is based upon what goes before. The idea is that those who are children of God must rise up out of. narrow...
THE ERROR OF JUDGMENT (Matthew 7:1-5)...
THEREFORE. Summing up all that has been said in verses: Matthew 7:1. WOULD. be willing. See App-102. THE LAW. See note on Matthew 5:17....
_Therefore_ The practical result of what has been said both in regard to judgment and to prayer is mutual charity. The thought of the divine judgment teaches forbearance; the thought of the divine goo...
C. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM, 1–27 After contrasting the New Law with the Mosaic Law and with Pharisaic rules and conduct, Jesus proceeds to lay down rules for the guidance of His disciples in th...
ΟΥ̓͂Ν. The practical result of what has been said both in regard to judgment and to prayer is mutual charity. The thought of the divine judgment teaches forbearance; the thought of the divine goodness...
VER 12. "THEREFORE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO TO THEM: FOR THIS IS THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS." Aug.: Firmness and strength of walking by the way of wisdom i...
_JESUS SPOKE WITH AUTHORITY ABOUT PRAYING MATTHEW 7:7-12_ : Prayer is pictured in different ways in the Bible. In Matthew six prayer is pictured as our duty toward God. In Matthew seven prayer is pict...
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DISCOURSE: 1330 THE DOING AS WE WOULD BE DONE UNTO Matthew 7:12. _Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets_. GOD...
THEREFORE, ALL THINGS, &C.— The Ουν _, Therefore,_ is by no means a mere expletive in this passage, for there is a force in the connection beyond what has been generally observed. Because our Saviour...
F. THE DANGERS FACING THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 7:1-27; Luke 6:37-49) 4. THE DANGER OF MISSING GOD'S TRUE STANDARD OF CONDUCT. TEXT: 7:12 12. All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men...
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. THEREFORE (TO SAY ALL IN ONE WORD) ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD TH...
12 Compare Luk_6:31. 12 To do as we would be done by is an ethical standard far above the world's attainment, yet far beneath the monitions of grace. The law and the prophets demand compliance with t...
THE GOLDEN RULE (Luke 6:31). This v. ought to form a distinct paragraph. Our Lord looks back to what He has been saying in Matthew 5 about the fulfilling of the Law, and sums up His teaching on the wh...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONCLUDED) The connexion of thought in this chapter is less close than in the earlier part of the sermon, and the whole chapter bears the appearance of an appendix of miscell...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 DO NOT BE JUDGES OF OTHER PEOPLE 7:1-6 V1 ‘Do not be judges of other people. If you do, God will be your judge. V2 In the same way...
THEREFORE... WHATSOEVER. — The sequence of thought requires, perhaps, some explanation. God gives His good things in answer to our wishes, if only what we wish for is really for our good. It is man’s...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_The golden rule_. οὖν here probably because in the source, _cf._ καὶ in quotation in Hebrews 1:6. The connection must be a matter of conjecture with Matthew 7:11, a, “Extend your goodness from childr...
JUDGING SELF; ASKING GOD; SERVING OTHERS Matthew 7:1-12 There is abundant need for a right and sound judgment, illumined by the Spirit of truth; but there is a world of difference between it and the...
After thus enunciating the laws of the Kingdom, and bringing men into the realm of direct dealing with God, the King authoritatively set up the standard of judgment. No man is to be his brother's judg...
(4) Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the (b) law and the prophets. (4) An explanation of the meaning of the second table. (b) Th...
For this is the law and the prophets; that is, all precepts that regard our neighbour are directed by this golden rule, do as you would be done by. (Witham) --- The whole law and all the duties betwee...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
This golden rule needs no comment. Oh! that all the followers of the Lord JESUS made it their rule with all men. It is said of one of the heathen emperors, Alexander Severus, that he was so great an a...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_THE GOLDEN RULE_ ‘All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.’ Matthew 7:12 In this part of the Sermon on the Mount our Lord begins to draw His discourse to a...
Matthew 7:12._All things whatsoever you would wish _The word _therefore _( οὖν) is superfluous, as we often find such particles occurring, and without any addition to the sense, in detached sentences....
There are two things connected with the presence of the multitude, Matthew 5:1. First, the time required that the Lord should give a true idea of the character of His kingdom, since already He drew th...
THEREFORE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER,.... These words are the epilogue, or conclusion of our Lord's discourse; the sum of what he had delivered in the two preceding Chapter s, and in this hitherto, is cont...
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Ver. 12. _Therefore all things whatsoever ye would, &c._] _q.d._ To wi...
_Therefore all things_, &c. As if he had said, But it is only on this condition that he will give, and continue to give them, viz., that ye follow the example of his equity and benevolence, that you i...
SO; do to others as, under like circumstances, you ought to wish others to do to you. THIS IS THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS; what is required in the Old Testament....
The Golden Rule: THEREFORE, ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO TO THEM; FOR THIS IS THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. Here is a summary which embraces in one short sentenc...
Simple honesty will understand these first five verses without difficulty. The word "judge" is used in various different ways in Scripture. Believers are told to "judge" what Paul says (1 Corinthians...
12-14 Christ came to teach us, not only what we are to know and believe, but what we are to do; not only toward God, but toward men; not only toward those of our party and persuasion, but toward men...
Most interpreters think the term _therefore_ here redundant, as some such little particles often are in holy writ, for it is hard to make out this to be a proper inference from the premises. This prec...
Tertullian Scorpiace And, "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye likewise so to, them."[65] Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer And again: "Whatsoever good things ye would that men shou...
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All things therefore whatever you would that men should do to you, Even so do you also to them, For this is the law and the prophets. ‘Therefore.' This connecting word makes clear the connection of...
THE MEANS BY WHICH THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIANIC AGE THROUGH THE PRAYERS OF HIS PEOPLE (7:7-12). Having outlined in some depths the Messianic interpretation...
Matthew 7:12. THEREFORE. An inference from Matthew 7:1-11, summing up the duties to others: not censoriousness, nor laxity, but giving like God's; as He gives good things to those asking Him, even so...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
CONNECTION and CONTENTS. The connection is not obvious; no theory can be insisted upon. Various views: (1) No connection intended. (2) Matthew 7:7 is connected with the last chapter, while Matthew 7:1...
THAT MEN SHOULD DO UNTO YOU (ινα ποιωσιν υμιν ο ανθρωπο). Luke (Luke 6:31) puts the Golden Rule parallel with Matthew 5:42. The negative form is in Tobit 4:15. It was used by Hillel, Philo, Isocrate...
Matthew 7:6 , MATTHEW 7:12 Consider: I. The reserve which will not give things holy to dogs. The dog was reckoned, with the swine, among the unclean animals. They were both of them types of the gross...
Matthew 7:7. _Ask, and it shall be given you;_ He that will not ask for it deserves to go without it. Have you ever asked for it? If not, whose fault is it that you have it not? Matthew 7:7. _Seek,...
Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again._ Some people are of a censorious...
Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged._ You are not called to judge; you are not qualified to judge: «God is the Judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.» There is much better wor...
While we are reading, let us also be adoring at the same time, for the. words of Christ have a gracious divinity about them; they are infinite; they are omnipotent. There is a kind of life in them; a...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Encouragement to prayer. The two ways. Warnings against false teachers. Danger of profession without faith. The two foundations. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONC...
Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged._ This refers to private and censorious reproaches of others. We must judge nothing before the time. It is better that ten bad men pass for innocent, tha...
_That men should do to you, do ye even so to them._ WHEREIN LIES THAT EXACT RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS REQUIRED BETWEEN MAN AND MAN I. The expectation of it. Put thyself into the place and circumstances...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 7:12 DO ALSO TO THEM. Known as “the Golden Rule,” this verse summarizes the teaching of THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS (see...
CHAPTER 7 _Judge not_, rashly and malignantly, _that ye_, &c. Christ does not here prohibit the public judgments of magistrates, by which they condemn the guilty and absolve the innocent, for this is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 7:3. MOTE.—The Greek noun so translated means a stalk, or twig. The illustration seems to have been a familiar one among the Jews, and a proverb all but verbally identical is...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 7:1 (2) As anxiety about the things of this life hinders us Godwards (Matthew 6:19), so does censoriousness manwards (Matthew 7:1), our Lord thus tacitly op
MATTHEW 7:1-29 I believe that it goes without saying that Jesus Christ was certainly the greatest teacher who ever lived and it is interesting to study his teaching habits. And He used the method of d...
1 Timothy 1:5; Amos 5:14; Amos 5:15; Ezekiel 18:21; Ezekiel 18:7;...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) Matthew 7:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A command. God not only requests but definitely commands us, that we should not judge one another. There is probably no sin qui...
Luke 6:31....
Observe here, 1. An incomparable rule of life; always to do as we would be done by. Note, That the great rule of righteousness and equity in all our dealings with men is this, TO DO US WE WOULD BE DO...