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If You Don't Love Your Neighbor    (1951)

Oh you don't love God
If you don't love your neighbor
If you gossip about him, if you never have mercy
If he gets into trouble, and you don't try to help him
Then you don't love your neighbor
And you don't love God

There are many people who will say they're Christians
And they live like Christians on the Sabbath day
But come Monday morning, till the coming Sunday
They will fight their neighbor all along the way

In the holy Bible, in the book of Matthew
Read the 18th chapter on the 21st verse
Jesus plainly tells us that we must have mercy
There's a special warning in the 35th verse

There's a God Almighty, and you've got to love Him
If you want salvation and a home on high
If you say you love Him while you hate your neighbor
Then you don't have religion, you just told a lie

Lyrics by Tommy Coley and Philip "Shorty" Sullivan.
Recorded by Carl Story; Rhonda Vincent; many others.

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