Deuteronomy 6:5

6:5 You must love ¹  the Lord your God with your whole mind, ²  your whole being, ³  and all your strength. ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 10:12

An Exhortation to Love Both God and People

10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, ⁵  to obey all his commandments, ⁶  to love him, to serve him ⁷  with all your mind and being, ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 30:6

30:6 The Lord your God will also cleanse ⁹  your heart and the hearts of your descendants ¹⁰  so that you may love him ¹¹  with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

Mark 12:29-30

12:29 Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 12:30 Love ¹²  the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ ¹³ 

Mark 12:33

12:33 And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength ¹⁴  and to love your neighbor as yourself ¹⁵  is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Luke 10:27

10:27 The expert ¹⁶  answered, “Love ¹⁷  the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, ¹⁸  and love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁹ 

Romans 8:7

8:7 because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

Hebrews 10:16-17

10:16 “This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put ²⁰  my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,” ²¹  10:17 then he says, ²²  “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer.” ²³ 

Hebrews 10:1

Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted

10:1 For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship. ²⁴ 

Hebrews 5:2-5

5:2 He is able to deal compassionately with those who are ignorant and erring, since he also is subject to weakness, 5:3 and for this reason he is obligated to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people. 5:4 And no one assumes this honor ²⁵  on his own initiative, ²⁶  but only when called to it by God, ²⁷  as in fact Aaron was. 5:5 So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, ²⁸  who said to him, “You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,” ²⁹ 

¹ tn The verb אָהַב (’ahav, “to love”) in this setting communicates not so much an emotional idea as one of covenant commitment. To love the Lord is to be absolutely loyal and obedient to him in every respect, a truth Jesus himself taught (cf. John 14:15). See also the note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37.

² tn Heb “heart.” In OT physiology the heart (לֵב, לֵבָב; levav, lev) was considered the seat of the mind or intellect, so that one could think with one’s heart. See A. Luc, NIDOTTE 2:749-54.

³ tn Heb “soul”; “being.” Contrary to Hellenistic ideas of a soul that is discrete and separate from the body and spirit, OT anthropology equated the “soul” (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh) with the person himself. It is therefore best in most cases to translate נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) as “being” or the like. See H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 10-25; D. Fredericks, NIDOTTE 3:133-34.

⁴ sn For NT variations on the Shema see Matt 22:37-39; Mark 12:29-30; Luke 10:27.

⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

⁶ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “follow his ways exactly”; NLT “to live according to his will.”

⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

⁸ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being”; NCV “with your whole being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

⁹ tn Heb “circumcise” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “will give you and your descendents obedient hearts.” See note on the word “cleanse” in Deut 10:16.

¹⁰ tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).

¹¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.

¹³ tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).

¹⁴ sn A quotation from Deut 6:4-5 and Josh 22:5 (LXX). The fourfold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.

¹⁷ sn A quotation from Deut 6:5.

¹⁸ sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.

²¹ tn Grk “And he”; the referent (the expert in religious law, shortened here to “the expert”) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

²² tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).

²³ sn A quotation from Deut 6:5. The fourfold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.

²⁴ tn This portion of the reply is a quotation from Lev 19:18. The verb is repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²⁵ tn Grk “putting…I will inscribe.”

²⁶ sn A quotation from Jer 31:33.

²⁹ tn Grk “and.”

³⁰ sn A quotation from Jer 31:34.

³³ tn Grk “those who approach.”

³⁷ sn Honor refers here to the honor of the high priesthood.

³⁸ tn Grk “by himself, on his own.”

³⁹ tn Grk “being called by God.”

⁴¹ tn Grk “the one”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴² tn Grk “I have begotten you”; see Heb 1:5.