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- One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"
- "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.'
- The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'There is no commandment greater than these."
- "Well said, teacher," the man replied. "You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him.
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- And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
- 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.
- And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
- And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
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- To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
- When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.
- While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, "How is it that the teachers of the law say that the Christ is the son of David?
- David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: " 'The Lord said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet." '
- David himself calls him 'Lord.' How then can he be his son?" The large crowd listened to him with delight.
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- And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
- And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
- And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?
- For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
- David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
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