Deuteronomy 10:12
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12 “So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,(A)
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Deuteronomy 6:5
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5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.(A)
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Micah 6:8
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8 He has told you, O mortal, what is good,
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice and to love kindness
and to walk humbly with your God?(A)
Deuteronomy 5:33
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33 You must follow exactly the path that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land that you are to possess.(A)
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Luke 10:27
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27 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.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 11:13
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13 “If you will only heed his every commandment[a] that I am commanding you today—loving the Lord your God and serving him with all your heart and with all your soul(A)—
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- 11.13 Compare Gk: Heb my commandments
Mark 12:29-33
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29 Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one;(A) 30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”(B) 32 Then the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that ‘he is one, and besides him there is no other’;(C) 33 and ‘to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength’ and ‘to love one’s neighbor as oneself’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”(D)
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Matthew 22:37
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37 He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’(A)
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1 John 4:19-20
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19 We love[a] because he first loved us. 20 Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.(A)
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- 4.19 Other ancient authorities add him or God
Deuteronomy 6:13
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13 The Lord your God you shall fear, him you shall serve, and by his name alone you shall swear.(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:29
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29 From there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find him if you search after him with all your heart and soul.(A)
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Hebrews 12:28
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28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe,
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Titus 2:11-12
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11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,[a](A) 12 training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,(B)
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- 2.11 Or has appeared to all, bringing salvation
Acts 9:31
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31 Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.(A)
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Zephaniah 3:9
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9 At that time I will change the speech of the peoples
to a pure speech,
that all of them may call on the name of the Lord
and serve him with one accord.(A)
Ezekiel 11:20
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20 so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.(A)
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Jeremiah 32:39-40
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39 I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for all time, for their own good and the good of their children after them.(A) 40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them, and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me.
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Psalm 145:20
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20 The Lord watches over all who love him,
but all the wicked he will destroy.(A)
Psalm 81:13
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13 O that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!(A)
Psalm 34:9
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9 O fear the Lord, you his holy ones,
for those who fear him have no want.(A)
Job 36:11
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11 If they listen and serve him,
they complete their days in prosperity
and their years in pleasantness.(A)
Joshua 22:5
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5 Take good care to observe the commandment and instruction that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, and to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 30:20
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20 loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him, for that means life to you and length of days, so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”(A)
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1 John 5:5
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5 Who is it who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?(A)
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1 John 2:15
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15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. The love of the Father is not in those who love the world,(A)
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