Love(A) the Lord your God with all your heart(B) and with all your soul and with all your strength.(C)

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Know therefore that the Lord your God is God;(A) he is the faithful God,(B) keeping his covenant of love(C) to a thousand generations(D) of those who love him and keep his commandments.(E)

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Fear the Lord

12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you(A) but to fear(B) the Lord your God, to walk(C) in obedience to him, to love him,(D) to serve the Lord(E) your God with all your heart(F) and with all your soul,(G) 13 and to observe the Lord’s commands(H) and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?(I)

14 To the Lord your God belong the heavens,(J) even the highest heavens,(K) the earth and everything in it.(L) 15 Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved(M) them, and he chose you,(N) their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.(O) 16 Circumcise(P) your hearts,(Q) therefore, and do not be stiff-necked(R) any longer.

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19 And you are to love(A) those who are foreigners,(B) for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.(C)

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The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants,(A) so that you may love(B) him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.

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30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[a](A) 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b](B) There is no commandment greater than these.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 12:30 Deut. 6:4,5
  2. Mark 12:31 Lev. 19:18

12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.(A) 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.(B)

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12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other(A) and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.

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Now about your love for one another(A) we do not need to write to you,(B) for you yourselves have been taught by God(C) to love each other.(D)

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Concluding Exhortations

13 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.(A)

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16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.(A) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.(B)

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And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning.(A) I ask that we love one another.

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