What does the Bible say about love the lord with all your heart?
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The Bible teaches that loving the Lord with all our heart is the greatest commandment, calling for wholehearted devotion that embraces our mind, soul, and strength. Deuteronomy 6:5 grounds this love in God’s covenant claim upon His people, and Jesus repeats it in Matthew 22:37 and Mark 12:30 as the chief duty from which all faithful obedience flows. Such love is not mere emotion but trust, worship, obedience, and a willing pursuit of God’s will, as Deuteronomy 10:12 and Joshua 22:5 show. Yet believers love because God first loved us, supremely revealed in the gift of His Son (John 3:16; 1 John 4:7-8). By grace, the Spirit turns hearts toward God and produces love for Him and for neighbor.
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- Mark 12:30
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.
- Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
- Luke 10:27
He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."
- Deuteronomy 6:5
and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
- Deuteronomy 10:12
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
- 1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
- Joshua 22:5
Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- 1 John 4:8
He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
- Deuteronomy 13:3
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
- John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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