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Mark 12:29–30

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12:29Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 12:30Love61 the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’62

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Footnotes

  1. 61 Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see and ).
  2. 62 A quotation from Deut 6:4–5 and Josh 22:5 (). The fourfold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Jesus answered, “The most important is Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.

NLTNew Living Translation

Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.’

KJV 1900King James Version

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.