²⁹ Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one;^(A)

⁴ “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.^[a](A)

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)

²⁰ Now a mediator involves more than one party, but God is one.^(A)

³⁰ since God is one, and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.^(A)

⁴ Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”^(A)

²⁵ to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.^(A)

¹⁹ You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder.^(A)

⁵ For

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’;^{(A) 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.”^(B)