Matthew 22:34-40

New Catholic Bible

³⁴ The Greatest Commandment.^[a] When the Pharisees learned that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, ³⁵ and, to test him, one of them, a lawyer, asked this question, ³⁶ “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

³⁷ Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the greatest and the first commandment. ³⁹ The second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ Everything in the Law and the Prophets depends on these two commandments.”