Verse 12

An Exhortation to Love Both God and People Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being,

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 6:5 : 5 You must love the LORD your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.
  • Deut 5:33 : 33 Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the LORD really wants from you: He wants you to carry out justice, to love faithfulness, and to live obediently before your God.
  • Deut 11:13 : 13 Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the LORD your God and serve him with all your mind and being,
  • Luke 10:27 : 27 The expert answered,“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Mark 12:29-33 : 29 Jesus answered,“The most important is:‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is:‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32 The expert in the law said to him,“That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him. 33 And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
  • Matt 22:37 : 37 Jesus said to him,“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
  • Ezek 11:20 : 20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
  • Zeph 3:9 : 9 Know for sure that I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the LORD’s name when they pray, and will worship him in unison.
  • Matt 11:29-30 : 29 Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry.”
  • Deut 4:29 : 29 But if you seek the LORD your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.
  • Deut 6:13 : 13 You must revere the LORD your God, serve him, and take oaths using only his name.
  • 1 John 2:15 : 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
  • 1 John 4:19-20 : 19 We love because he loved us first. 20 If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-17 : 15 but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct, 16 for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.” 17 And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.
  • Rom 8:28 : 28 And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,
  • Titus 2:11-12 : 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. 12 It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
  • Luke 11:42 : 42 “But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.
  • Acts 9:31 : 31 Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, the church increased in numbers.
  • 1 John 5:5 : 5 Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
  • Deut 30:16 : 16 What I am commanding you today is to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.
  • Deut 30:20 : 20 I also call on you to love the LORD your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  • Josh 22:5 : 5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the LORD’s servant gave you. Love the LORD your God, follow all his instructions, obey his commands, be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart and being!”
  • Job 36:11 : 11 If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.
  • Ps 18:1 : 1 For the music director; by the LORD’s servant David, who sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD rescued him from the power of all his enemies, including Saul. He said:“I love you, LORD, my source of strength!
  • Ps 34:9 : 9 Fear the LORD, you chosen people of his, for those who fear him lack nothing!
  • Ps 81:13 : 13 If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands!
  • Ps 128:1 : 1 A song of ascents. How blessed is every one of the LORD’s loyal followers, each one who keeps his commands!
  • Ps 145:20 : 20 The LORD protects all those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.
  • Jer 7:22-23 : 22 Consider this: When I spoke to your ancestors after I brought them out of Egypt, I did not merely give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 I also explicitly commanded them:“Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you.”
  • Jer 32:39-40 : 39 I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for their own good and the good of the children who descend from them. 40 I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me.
  • 1 John 5:2-3 : 2 By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,
  • Rom 1:9 : 9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you