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The Greatest Commandment

Deuteronomy 6:5

In 11 translations

BSB
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.Cited in Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, and Luke 10:27
KJV
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
WEB
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
ASV
and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
LSV
And you have loved your God YHWH with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
YLT
and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,
DBY
and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength.Elohim
DRC
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.
GNV
And thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy might.
JPS
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
LXXE
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and all thy strength.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּכָל־לְבָבְךָ֥ וּבְכָל־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וּבְכָל־מְאֹדֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἀγαπήσεις Κύριον τὸν Θεόν σου ἐξ ὅλης τῆς διανοίας σου, καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ψυχῆς σου, καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς δυνάμεώς σου.

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  • Mark 12:30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
  • Matthew 22:37Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
  • Luke 10:27He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
  • Deuteronomy 10:12And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
  • Deuteronomy 4:29But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • 1 John 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
  • Mark 12:33and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
  • Deuteronomy 11:13So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • John 14:20–21On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love…
  • 2 Kings 23:25Neither before nor after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.
  • Matthew 10:37Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
  • 2 Corinthians 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died. And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was…

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