19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 2 earlier texts.

• Deut 6:5 · exact_quote
  "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."
  Deuteronomy: love the Lord with all your heart — the lawyer's answer
• Lev 19:18 · exact_quote
  "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD."
  Leviticus: love your neighbor as yourself — the lawyer's answer in Luke

4 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Faith
• Love
• Obedience and Disobedience

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 13:13 — And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
• 1John 3:18 — My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
• Deut 6:5 — And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
• Deut 6:5 — And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
• Deut 10:12 — And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy s
• Deut 10:12 — And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy s
• Deut 30:6 — And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
• Gal 5:13 — For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
• Gal 5:14 — For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Heb 8:10 — For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, an
• Jas 2:8 — If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
• Jas 2:8 — If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
• Lev 19:18 — Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
• Lev 19:18 — Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
• Mark 12:29 — And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
• Mark 12:30 — 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.
• Mark 12:31 — And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
• Mark 12:33 — And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and s
• Matt 5:43 — Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
• Matt 19:19 — Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Matt 22:37 — Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
• Matt 22:37 — Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
• Matt 22:39 — And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Ps 9:1 — I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
• Rom 10:5 — For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
• Rom 13:9 — For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly compr
• Rom 13:9 — For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly compr
• Titus 3:5 — Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;