Mark 12:30-33

12:30 Love ¹  the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ ²  12:31 The second is: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ³  There is no other commandment greater than these.” 12:32 The expert in the law said to him, “That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him. ⁴  12:33 And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength ⁵  and to love your neighbor as yourself ⁶  is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

¹ tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).

² 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.

³ sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.

⁴ sn A quotation from Deut 4:35.

⁵ sn A quotation from Deut 6:5.

⁶ sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.