“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12 NIV)

“The most important one (commandment),” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”(Mark 12:30-31 NIV)

These verses of scripture were taken and applied to what we know as the Golden Rule. It commands us to treat everyone the way we want to be treated by loving our neighbors as we would ourselves. The part I enjoy about these scriptures is the assumption we know how to love ourselves and therefore we know how to love others. It…