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Matthew 22:34-40
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Matthew 22:34-40
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When the Pharisees heard how he had bested the Sadducees, they gathered their forces for an assault.
35
One of their religion scholars spoke for them, posing a question they hoped would show him up:
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"Teacher, which command in God's Law is the most important?"
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Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.'
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This is the most important, the first on any list.
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But there is a second to set alongside it: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.'
40
These two commands are pegs; everything in God's Law and the Prophets hangs from them."
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Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.