Loving Our Neighbor – A Kingdom Catechism

Loving Our Neighbor

A Kingdom Catechism

The last six commandments outline our duty in loving our neighbor.

Q 45: Which parts of the Law of God teach us to love our neighbors?

A 45: While all the Law teaches love for our neighbors, the last six commandments, together with their precepts, statutes, and rules, most especially teach us how we must love them. (Exod. 20:12-17; Deut. 5:16-21)

The love we nurture on the vertical plane, in our relationship with God, comes to expression on the horizontal plane, in the ways we love our neighbors. Commandments 5-10 direct us in the ways we must show God’s love for our neighbors. The statutes, precepts, and rules which accompany these commandments are intended to further illustrate or demonstrate the requirements of neighbor love in specific situations.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.