37-40 Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets hangs from them.”

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39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:39 Lev. 19:18