 Jesus was telling us to love our neighbor in the same way that we would like to be loved or in the same way that we love ourselves and this particular passage is Repeated in the other Gospels Matthew and Luke and it takes kind of a little right turn from those passages Let me show you what I mean in Matthew chapter 7 we read the companion passage to this one therefore whatever you want men to do to you do also to them for this is the law and prophets