Deuteronomy 6:1-9

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Love the Lord Your God

6 These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, ²so that you, your children and their children after them may fear^(A) the Lord your God as long as you live^(B) by keeping all his decrees and commands^(C) that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.^(D) ³Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey^(E) so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly^(F) in a land flowing with milk and honey,^(G) just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised^(H) you.

⁴Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.^[a]^(I) ⁵Love^(J) the Lord your God with all your heart^(K) and with all your soul and with all your strength.^(L) ⁶These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.^(M) ⁷Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.^(N) ⁸Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.^(O) ⁹Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.^(P)

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Deuteronomy 6:4 Or The Lord our God is one Lord; or The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone

Mark 12:28-31

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The Greatest Commandment^(A)

²⁸One of the teachers of the law^(B) came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”

²⁹“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.^[a] ³⁰Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’^[b]^(C) ³¹The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[c]^(D) There is no commandment greater than these.”