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and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
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Love with Your Whole Being
Commentators explain that loving God with all your "heart, soul, and might" is a call for total self-surrender. This includes your intellect and understanding ("heart"), your will and personality ("soul"), and all your energy and vital powers ("might"). Ancient Jewish teachers even interpreted "might" to mean with all your money and possessions, and "soul" to mean being willing to love God even unto death. It is an all-encompassing, unreserved devotion.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 o…
19th Century
Anglican
Hear, O Israel ... —These two verses are called by our Lord the first and great commandment in the Law. The firs…
Baptist
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
It is not a little love t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall love the Lord your God Which is the first and chief commandment in the law, the sum and substance of t…
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 al…