The Greatest Commandment
(Matthew 22:34–40; Mark 12:28–34)
These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess, Deu 4:1Deu 12:1Deu 4:45Deu 5:31Lev 27:34Deu 4:14Deu 4:5Ezk 37:24 so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged. Deu 4:40Deu 13:4Ecc 12:13Exo 20:20Pro 3:1-2Psa 128:1Pro 3:161Pe 3:10-11 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you. Gen 22:17Exo 3:8Gen 15:5Gen 26:4Gen 28:14Isa 3:10Act 7:17Deu 4:6
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. 1 Mrk 12:29-32Isa 44:61Ti 2:5Isa 45:5-6Jhn 17:3Jhn 10:30Isa 44:8Isa 42:8 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 2 Mrk 12:30Mat 22:37Luk 10:27Deu 10:12Deu 30:6Deu 4:291Jn 5:3Mrk 12:33
These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. Col 3:16Pro 7:3Jer 31:33Deu 11:182Co 3:3Psa 37:31Deu 32:46Psa 119:11 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Deu 11:19Eph 6:4Psa 78:4-61Pe 3:15Deu 4:9-10Deu 6:2Eph 4:29Gen 18:19 Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Pro 6:21Deu 11:18Pro 3:3Exo 13:9Pro 7:3Exo 13:16Num 15:38-39Heb 2:1 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates. Deu 11:20Isa 30:8Isa 57:8Hab 2:2Exo 12:7Job 19:23-25
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build, Jos 24:13Psa 105:44Neh 9:25Gen 26:3Psa 78:55Gen 13:15-17Gen 15:18Gen 28:13 with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied, Deu 7:12-18Deu 8:10-20Ezk 16:10-20Deu 32:15Jer 2:31-32Jdg 3:7Pro 30:8-9Mat 19:23-24 be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name. 3 Luk 4:8Deu 10:20Deu 13:4Mat 4:10Lev 19:12Deu 10:12Psa 63:11Isa 45:23 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you. Jer 25:61Jn 5:21Deu 13:7Deu 8:19Deu 11:28Exo 34:14-16 For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth. Deu 4:24Exo 20:5Deu 11:17Deu 7:41Ki 13:342Ch 36:16Amo 3:2Amo 9:8
Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah. 4 Exo 17:7Luk 4:12Mat 4:7Psa 95:8-9Heb 3:8-91Co 10:9Exo 17:2Num 21:4-5 You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you. Deu 11:22Psa 119:41Co 15:582Pe 1:5-102Pe 3:14Exo 15:26Heb 6:11Tit 3:8 Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers, Deu 4:40Deu 12:25Deu 5:29Rom 12:2Ezk 18:5Jhn 8:29Deu 12:28Deu 13:18 driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said. Exo 23:28-30Num 33:52-53Jdg 2:1-3Jdg 3:1-4
Teach Your Children
In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?” Exo 13:14Exo 12:26Jos 4:21-24Jos 4:6-7Deu 6:7Pro 22:6 then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Eph 2:11-12Rom 6:17-18Deu 15:15Deu 5:6Exo 20:2Deu 26:5-9Deu 5:15Exo 13:3 Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household. Deu 4:34Psa 58:10-11Deu 7:19Psa 91:8Deu 1:30Deu 3:21Deu 4:3Exo 14:1-31 But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers. Deu 6:18Deu 1:8Deu 6:10Exo 13:5Deu 1:35
And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day. Jer 32:39Psa 41:2Deu 10:12-13Isa 3:10Deu 4:1Deu 8:1Rom 10:5Rom 6:21-22 And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.” Deu 24:13Rom 10:3Jas 2:10Lev 18:5Rom 10:5-6Luk 10:28-29Pro 12:28Psa 106:30-31