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12 The Golden Rule of Love.[a]“In everything, deal with others as you would like them to deal with you. This is the Law and the Prophets.

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  1. Matthew 7:12 Here in a word is what one must retain of the Law and the Prophets, i.e., the Old Testament: to have for others the same concern one has for oneself, out of love for God. This so-called Golden Rule is found in negative form in rabbinic Judaism as well as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.