36 “Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest?”

37 He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.[a](A) 38 This is the greatest and most important[b] command. 39 The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.[c](B) 40 All the Law and the Prophets depend[d] on these two commands.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 22:37 Dt 6:5
  2. 22:38 Lit and first
  3. 22:39 Lv 19:18
  4. 22:40 Or hang

36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

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)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:37 Deut. 6:5
  2. Matthew 22:39 Lev. 19:18

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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So now I ask you, dear lady—not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.(A) This is love:(B) that we walk according to his commands.(C) This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: that you walk in love.[a]

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  1. 6 Or in it

And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning.(A) I ask that we love one another. And this is love:(B) that we walk in obedience to his commands.(C) As you have heard from the beginning,(D) his command is that you walk in love.

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And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

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