He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Parallel translations
- WEB He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
- KJV And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
- NKJV So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
- NASB And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
- NLT The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
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Quick answer
The lawyer summarizes the law as wholehearted love for God and love for neighbor as oneself. This twofold command is the heart of God's moral will.
Overview
Citing Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18, the lawyer rightly distills the whole law into love for God and neighbor. Jesus elsewhere affirms these as the greatest commandments on which all else hangs. Yet the demand is so total that it ultimately drives sinners to the mercy found only in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Mark 12:30–31Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
- Matt 22:37–40Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
- Deut 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- Rom 13:9The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Lev 19:18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
- Deut 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
- Jas 2:8If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
- Deut 10:12And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Mark 12:33–34and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
- 1 Jn 3:18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
- Heb 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
- Matt 19:19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
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