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.
The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Matthew 7:12 (KJV)
Variants:
- Popularly, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
- NIV: "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."
- NRSV: "In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets."
- TEV: "Do for others what you want them to do for you: this is the meaning of the Law of Moses and of the teachings of the prophets."
Note: The "Golden Rule" has been expressed in many ways by many religious and philosophical teachers. Several of these in WIST are or will be cross-referenced to this quotation (as trackbacks), not to lend it primacy, but because this is the most well-known formulation of it in the Western world, and to simplify the cross-referencing to one central point.
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Adept Kung said: “I do nothing to others that I wouldn’t want done to me.” “That’s something you haven’t quite mastered, Kung,” the Master replied. [子貢曰、我不欲人之加諸我也、吾亦欲無加諸人。 子曰、賜也、非爾所及也。] The earliest appearance of the “Golden Rule” in world literature. See also 12.2, 15.24, and Matthew 7:12. Originally numbered 5.11 by Legge and…