New English Translation
Deuteronomy 6:5
5You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
- New International Version (NIV)Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Context of Deuteronomy 6:5
3Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number – as the Lord, God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey. 4Listen, Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength. 6These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind, 7and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.
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וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּכָל־לְבָבְךָ֥ וּבְכָל־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וּבְכָל־מְאֹדֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 6:5
- Deuteronomy 10:12Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being,
- Deuteronomy 11:13Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being,
- Deuteronomy 30:6The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.
- Matthew 22:37Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
- Mark 12:30Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
- Luke 10:27The expert answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
- 1 John 5:3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,
- Deuteronomy 4:29But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.
- 2 Kings 23:25No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses.
- Matthew 10:37“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
- John 14:20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 6:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Thou shalt love the Lord, etc. - Here we see the truth of that word of the apostle, 1 Timothy 1:5; : Now the End of the Commandment is Love out of a pure heart, etc. See the whole of the doctrine contained in this verse explained on Matthew 22:36-40; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Since there is but One God, and that God is Israel‘s God, so Israel must love God unreservedly and entirely. The “heart” is mentioned as the seat of the understanding; the “soul” as the center of will and personality; the “might” as representing the outgoings and energies of all the vital powers. The New Testament itself requires no more than this total self-surrender of man‘s being to his maker Matthew 22:37. The Gospel differs from the Law not so much…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-5Verses 4-5 Here is a brief summary of religion, containing the first principles of faith and obedience. Jehovah our God is the only living and true God; he only is God, and he is but One God. Let us not desire to have any other. The three-fold mention of the Divine names, and the plural number of the word translated God, seem plainly to intimate a Trinity of persons, even in this express declaration of the unity of the Godhead. Happy those who have this…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5love the LORD: See study note on Joshua 23:11. The words heart … soul … strength represent the mind, will, emotions, spirituality, and physical being. In other words, they refer to all that a person is and can do for God. This commandment is central to God’s covenant with Israel (see Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-251-9. Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them ... whither ye go to possess it--The grand design of all the institutions prescribed to Israel was to form a religious people, whose national character should be distinguished by that fear of the Lord their God which would ensure their divine observance of His worship and their steadfast obedience to His will. The…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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