The Great Commandment

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Matthew 22:34-40

34) When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,

35) and one of them, a lawyer, asked Jesus a question as a test.

36) "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"

37) Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Sovereign your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

38) This is the greatest and first commandment.

39) And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

40) On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."