Matthew 22:34-40 English Standard Version
The Great Commandment
34 (A)But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced (B)the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 (C)And one of them, (D)a lawyer, asked him a question (E)to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, (F)“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And (G)a second is like it: (H)You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 (I)On these two commandments depend (J)all the Law and the Prophets.”
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- Matthew 22:34 : For ver. 34-40, see Mark 12:28-33
- Matthew 22:34 : ver. 23
- Matthew 22:35 : [Luke 10:25-28]
- Matthew 22:35 : See Luke 7:30
- Matthew 22:35 : ver. 18
- Matthew 22:37 : Luke 10:27; Cited from Deut. 6:5
- Matthew 22:39 : [1 John 4:21]
- Matthew 22:39 : Cited from Lev. 19:18; See ch. 19:19
- Matthew 22:40 : [Rom. 13:8, 10]
- Matthew 22:40 : ch. 7:12; [Gal. 5:14]
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