The Greatest Command

6 “This is the command—the statutes and ordinances—the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess.^{(A) 2} Do this so that you may fear^(B) the Lord your God^(C) all the days of your life^(D) by keeping all his statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.^{(E) 3} Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.^(F)

⁴ “Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.^{[a](G) 5} Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.^{(H) 6} These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.^{(I) 7} Repeat them to your children.^(J) Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. ⁸ Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol^[b] on your forehead.^{[c](K) 9} Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates.

Psalm 1

The Two Ways

The Temptation of Jesus

4 Then^(A) Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.^{(B) 2} After he had fasted forty days and forty nights,^(C) he was hungry. ³ Then the tempter approached him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”^(D)

⁴ He answered, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”^[a](E)

⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple,^{(F) 6} and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written:

⁷ Jesus told him, “It is also written: Do not test the Lord your God.”^[c](I)

⁸ Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. ⁹ And he said to him, “I will give you all these things if you will fall down and worship me.”^[d]

¹⁰ Then Jesus told him, “Go away,^[e] Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.”^[f](J)

¹¹ Then the devil left him, and angels came and began to serve him.^(K)

¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,^{(A) 15} and you know that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures,^(B) which are able to give you wisdom for salvation^(C) through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is inspired by God^[a](D) and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.^(E)