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Bible study · Leviticus 19

Leviticus 19: Love your neighbor as yourself

Read Leviticus 19 before you meet.

In a few lines

"You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (19:18) is from Leviticus, in a chapter that makes holy practical: field corners left for the poor, wages paid before morning, fair courts, honest weights. The same "as yourself" is said of the stranger (19:34), and Jesus called 19:18 the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39).

The verse to carry

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.”

Leviticus 19:18

To talk about

  1. 1. Israel wasn't to reap to the very edge of the field, but to leave the rest "for the poor and for the foreigner" (19:10). What might leaving the edges look like in your week?

  2. 2. "You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor" (19:17). Which is harder for you: letting go of a grudge, or speaking up honestly and kindly?

  3. 3. Israel was to love the stranger "for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt" (19:34). How does remembering where you have been change the way you treat people?

Prayer requests