The Greatest Commandment: Love God and Neighbor (Matthew 22:37-40)
Matthew 22:37-40 · Berean Standard Bible
Asked which commandment is greatest, Jesus replies: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind," and "Love your neighbor as yourself," adding that "all the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." Matthew 22:37-40 sums up the entire Bible's ethic of love toward God and toward others.
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37Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38This is the first and greatest commandment.
39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Read the wider context: Matthew 22.
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