⁵ Love^(A) the Lord your God with all your heart^(B) and with all your soul and with all your strength.^(C)

³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^{[a](A) 38} This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^{[b](B) 40} All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”^(C)

¹⁹ We love because he first loved us.^{(A) 20} Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister^(B) is a liar.^(C) For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen,^(D) cannot love God, whom they have not seen.^{(E) 21} And he has given us this command:^(F) Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.^(G)

³² Be kind and compassionate to one another,^(A) forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.^(B)