August 29, 2021

The Great Commandment

³⁴ But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. ³⁵ And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ³⁶ “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” ³⁷ And he said to him, “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 a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

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Cross references

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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