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The Foremost Commandment

34 (A)But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced (B)the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. 35 And one of them, (C)a scholar of the Law, asked Him a question, testing Him, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “‘(D)You shall love the [a]Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the great and [b]foremost commandment. 39 And the second is like it, ‘(E)You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 (F)On these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:37 In OT, Yahweh, cf. Deut 6:5
  2. Matthew 22:38 Or first

34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, trying him: 36 Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 And he said unto him, [a]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 great and first commandment. 39 [b]And a second like unto it is this, [c]Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:37 Dt. 6:5.
  2. Matthew 22:39 Or, And a second is like unto it, Thou shalt love etc.
  3. Matthew 22:39 Lev. 19:18.