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30 You should love the Eternal, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.”[a] 31 The second great commandment is this: “Love others in the same way you love yourself.”[b] There are no commandments more important than these.

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30 And you shall love the Lord your God [a]out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your [b]life) and out of and with all your mind (with [c]your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. [d]This is the first and principal commandment.(A)

31 The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 12:30 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Mark 12:30 Hermann Cremer, A Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  3. Mark 12:30 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  4. Mark 12:30 Some manuscripts do not contain this part of verse 30.

29-31 Jesus said, “The first in importance is, ‘Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.’ And here is the second: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ There is no other commandment that ranks with these.”

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30 So love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ 31 The second most important commandment is this: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

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30 Love(A) the Lord your God(B) with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind,(C) and with all your strength.[a](D)[b]

31 “The second is: Love your neighbor(E) as yourself.(F)[c] There is no other command(G) greater than these.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 12:30 Other mss add This is the first commandment.
  2. Mark 12:30 Dt 6:4-5; Jos 22:5
  3. Mark 12:31 Lv 19:18