Matthew 22:37-39

22:37 Jesus ¹  said to him, “‘Love ²  the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³  22:38 This is the first and greatest ⁴  commandment. 22:39 The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁵ 

¹ tn Grk “And he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

² tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).

³ sn A quotation from Deut 6:5. The threefold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.

⁴ tn Grk “the great and first.”

⁵ sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.