The Altitude of Your Attitude
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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.
1. Is It Reasonable?
8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (b) The Proverbial Maxim of Reasonableness
The measure of our growth in grace is our attitude towards other people.
2. Is It Required?
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3. Is It Restricted? (to Jews)
25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
4. Is It Realized?
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.