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Deuteronomy 6:5

DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON Deuteronomy 6:5 love. See Deuteronomy 4:37. all. Because the Lord alone is Israel’s God, they should give him their exclusive and total devotion. Israelites are to love the Lord with all their heart, soul, and might. Jesus called this the “great and first commandment” (Matthew 22:38). In quoting the commandment, Jesus added “with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37). In early Hebrew, “heart” included what today is called the “mind.”

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See also Deuteronomy 6:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 6:5. _THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD, C._] 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_, c. See the...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Since 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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE FIRST COMMANDMENT AND WHAT IT INVOLVES CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Hear, therefore, O Israel! (Deuteronomy 6:1)_ 2. The first commandment (Deuteronomy 6:4) 3. The remembrance of these words and practica...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and thou shalt love_ JEHOVAH _thy God_ Love, mentioned in JE as an affection between human beings (father and son, husband and wife, slave and master) and in H as a duty both to neighbour-Israelites...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 4, 5. _THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD,_ &C.— As polytheism was the great error of the world, the Jewish religion and laws were calculated to strike at the root of that epidemical evil. Therefore,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON SIX DEUTERONOMY 6:4-25 2. LOVE TO BE THE MOTIVE FOR OBSERVANCE THE SHEMA (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) 4 Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah: 5 and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THINE HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIGHT._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS To the repetition of the Decalogue Moses adds in the following Chapter s a practical exhortation to obedience founded on the special relation of Jehovah to Israel as their Rede...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Love goes deeper than fear. It is the fulfilling of all law, and includes obedience. Both in the OT. and in the New it is the effect of God's greatest love in redemption. 'We love Him because He first...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּ כָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The appeal of Moses was now elaborated in a great statement on the deepest value of the commandment and the corresponding responsibilities of the people Observe the peculiar form of the opening statem...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Whole heart....soul....and strength. God admits of no partner, nor will he suffer any rivulet to be drawn from the fountain of love, which is not ultimately referred to himself. Our neighbour we must...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! do you know anything of this precept in your own experience? If so, bless the HOLY GHOST for shedding abroad this love in your heart: for he is the author of it. 2 Thessalonians 3:5....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF BIBLICAL RELIGION_ ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And t...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD,.... Which is the first and chief commandment in the law, the sum and substance of the first table of it; and includes in it, or at least has connected with it, kn...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Ver. 5. _And thou shalt love._] _See Trapp on "_ Mat 22:37 _"_ This shows the impossibility o...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart_ And is this only an external commandment? Can any then say that the Sinai covenant was merely external? _With all thy heart_ It is not only the ex...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The end of the Law is obedience. 3 An exhortation thereto. 1 NOW these are the Commaundements, the Statutes, & the Iudgements, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might doe the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE EMPHATIC ADMONITION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might, Mark 12:30. All the powers of the inner life, of affection and will, should be centered in God...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT (vs.1-9) The ten commandments have been reaffirmed in chapter 5; now Moses emphasizes and enlarges upon the significance of the four commandments, which we have seen deal wit...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 des...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Now he shows another spring or principle of sincere obedience to God, even hearty love to God, which will make his work and service easy; and that the fear he mentioned before, DEUTERONOMY 6:2, was su...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgements, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: that thou mightest fea...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 6:5 love H157 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 heart H3824 soul H5315 strength H3966 you shall -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 6:1. _Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:_ God'...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 6:4. יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד, _Jehovah our Elohim is one Jehovah._ There is uniformly an elision of the letter ם _mem,_ when the plural is associated with the noun; and the י _yod_ is not use...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses had rehearsed the law, reminded the people of the circumstances in which it was given, and now he sets forth its essential and fundamental doctrines, the nature and attributes of...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So in chapter six: NOW these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land whither you go to possess it: Tha...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 5:3; 2 Corinthians 5:14; 2 Corinthians 5:15; 2 Kings 23:25;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart — And is this only an external commandment? Can any then say, that the Sinai — covenant was merely external? With all thy heart — With an enti...

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