Deuteronomy 6:4-8

The Greatest Commandment

⁴ _g "Hear, O Israel: ₁ The LORD our God, the LORD is one! ⁵ _h "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, _i with all your soul, and with all your strength. ⁶ "And _j these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. ⁷ _k "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ⁸ _l "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 4:35
   To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD Himself is God; there is none other besides Him.
   Mark 12:29
   Jesus answered him, "The first of all the commandments is: 'Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one.
   John 17:3
   And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
   1 Corinthians 8:4
   Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
   1 Corinthians 8:6
   Yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 22:37
   Jesus said to him, " 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
   Mark 12:30
   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.
   Luke 10:27
   So he answered and said, "'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.'
   
3. Cross References
   2 Kings 23:25
   Now before him there was no king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses; nor after him did any arise like him.
   
4. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 11:18 - 20
   Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
   Psalms 119:11
   Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.
   Psalms 119:98
   You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; For they are ever with me.
   
5. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 4:9
   Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren.
   Deuteronomy 11:19
   You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
   Ephesians 6:4
   And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
   
6. Cross References
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   Exodus 13:9
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   Exodus 13:16
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   Deuteronomy 11:18
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   Proverbs 3:3
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   Proverbs 6:21
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   Proverbs 7:3
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