Matthew 22:37-40
The Message
37-40 Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets hangs from them.”
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Matthew 22:37-39
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
37 And the One said to him: “‘You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole mind’ [Deut 6:5]— 38 this is the great and foremost[a] commandment. 39 And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ [Lev 19:18].
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- Matthew 22:38 Or, first.
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