Verse of the Day

　　

Mark 12:30

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength."

　　

Translations of Today's Verse

King James Version

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

English Standard Version

And 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.'

The Message

so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.'

New King James Version

"And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." This is the first commandment.

New Living Translation

"And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength."

　　

Commentary on Today's Verse

Commentary on Mark 12:28-34

(Read Mark 12:28-34)

　　Those who sincerely desire to be taught their duty, Christ will guide in judgment, and teach his way. He tells the scribe that the great commandment, which indeed includes all, is, that of loving God with all our hearts. Wherever this is the ruling principle in the soul, there is a disposition to every other duty. Loving God with all our heart, will engage us to every thing by which he will be pleased. The sacrifices only represented the atonements for men's transgressions of the moral law; they were of no power except as they expressed repentance and faith in the promised Saviour, and as they led to moral obedience. And because we have not thus loved God and man, but the very reverse, therefore we are condemned sinners; we need repentance, and we need mercy. Christ approved what the scribe said, and encouraged him. He stood fair for further advance; for this knowledge of the law leads to conviction of sin, to repentance, to discovery of our need of mercy, and understanding the way of justification by Christ.

　　

Mark 12:30 In-Context

28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"

　　29 "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.Or "The Lord our God is one Lord"

　　30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'Deut. 6:4,5

　　31 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'Lev. 19:18There is no commandment greater than these."

　　32 "Well said, teacher," the man replied. "You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him.