Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:
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Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:
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Iesus answered him: the fyrste of all the comaundementes is. Heare Israel: The Lorde God is one Lorde.
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Iesus answered him, The first of all the commandements is, Heare, Israel, The Lord our God is the onely Lord.
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- Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
- Luke 10:27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
- Galatians 3:20 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.
- Romans 3:30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
- Jude 1:25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
- James 2:19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
- Mark 12:32-33 The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he, and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
- Deuteronomy 30:6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
- Matthew 10:37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
- 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
- Deuteronomy 10:12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
- 1 Timothy 1:5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,
- Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
- Matthew 23:9 Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all…
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Ver. 29. Is one Lord] This the wiser heathens, as Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle with his Ens Entium miserere mei (if that were his), acknowledged, Exo 34:14. (εις θεος εστι μονος, Pythag. Buxtorf. Tib.) "Thou shalt worship none other God." Where the word אתר rendered other hath ø greater than ordinary, to show the greatness of the sin of serving other gods, and to set forth a difference betweeen acher, other, and echad, one God; one in three, and three in one. {Hebrew Text Note}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the second is like,.... "Unto it", as in…
And the second is like,.... "Unto it", as in Mat 22:39 and so it is read here in two ancient copies of Beza's, and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions;
namely this, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. This commandment stands in Lev 19:18 and respects not an Israelite only, or one of the same religion with a man's self, or his intimate friend and acquaintance, or one that lives in the same neighbourhood; but any man whatever, to whom affection should be shown, and good should be done to him, and for him, as a man would have done to and for himself; as much as lies in his power, both in things temporal and spiritual; see the note on Mat 22:39.
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There is none other commandment greater than these; in the whole law, moral or ceremonial; not the sabbath, nor circumcision, nor the phylacteries, nor the fringes on the borders of the garments, nor any other.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The Lord our God is one Lord - This…
The Lord our God is one Lord - This is the foundation of the first commandment, yea, of all the commandments. The Lord our God, the Lord, the God of all men, is one God, essentially, though three persons. From this unity of God it follows, that we owe all our love to him alone. Deut. vi, 4.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Literally the Lord our God is the only Lord:…
Literally the Lord our God is the only Lord: and this is the sense of the text in Deuteronomy vi. 4. The word in the original text, rendered by the term Lord, is the grand name JEHOVA, which signifies properly God, considered as the supreme Being, or the author of all existence.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 29. And Jesus answered him] Pointing, it may be,…
29. And Jesus answered him] Pointing, it may be, to the Scribe’s tephillah, תפלה, the little leather box containing in one of its four divisions the Shema (Deu_6:4), which every pious Israelite repeated twice a day.
The first of all the commandments] The Saviour quotes the introduction to the ten Commandments (Deu_6:4-5) as the first command, not as forming one of the commandments, but as containing the principle of all.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (29) Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is…
(29) Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord.—The quotation is given more fully by St. Mark than by St. Matthew. The opening words (from Deu_6:4) were in common use under the name of the Shemà (the Hebrew for “Hear”), and formed the popular expression of the faith of Israel. To say the Shemà was a passport into Paradise for any child of Abraham.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 12:29-31 Jesus’ reply combined two widely separated commands from…
12:29-31 Jesus’ reply combined two widely separated commands from the Torah. • The first, Deut 6:4-5, was probably the best known passage in the Old Testament, for it was repeated twice daily by observant Jews. It is called the Shema because it begins with the word Listen (Hebrew shema‘). The first command corresponds to the first part of the Ten Commandments (Exod 20:2-11), which deals with a person’s relationship to God. • The oneness of God is foundational to Jewish and Christian monotheism and is the basis for the command to love God with all one’s heart (thinking and affection), soul (desire and feeling), mind (understanding), and strength (energy and power). • The second command is from Lev 19:18. It corresponds to the second part of the Ten Commandments (Exod 20:12-17), which concerns a person’s relationship with other people. The second command is based on the natural inclination of people to look after themselves. Its importance to the early church can be seen in its frequent repetition (Matt 5:43-44; 19:19; 25:31-46; Rom 13:8-10; Gal 5:14; Jas 2:8; Didache 1.2; 2.7). The two commands are not independent, but are intimately associated as one commandment. Their integration precludes religious mysticism that addresses only a person’s relationship with God or humanism that addresses only human relationships.
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