Deuteronomy 6:5

Bible in Basic English

And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

King James Version
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Lexham English Bible
And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of your might.

English Standard Version
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

New Century Version
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

New English Translation
You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.

Amplified Bible
"You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and mind and with all your soul and with all your strength [your entire being].

New American Standard Bible
"And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy might.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Contemporary English Version
So love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength.

Complete Jewish Bible
and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, all your being and all your resources.

Darby Translation
and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength.

Easy-to-Read Version
You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

George Lamsa Translation
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Good News Translation
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Christian Standard Bible®
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Literal Translation
And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And thou shalt loue the LORDE thy God wt all thy hart, with all yi soule, & with all thy mighte.

American Standard Version
and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy myght.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy might.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and all thy strength.

English Revised Version
and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Berean Standard Bible
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt loue thi Lord God of al thin herte, and of al thi soule, and of al thi strengthe.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

Update Bible Version
and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

World English Bible
and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

New King James Version
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

New Living Translation
And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

New Life Bible
And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

New Revised Standard
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt therefore love Yahweh thy God, - with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy might;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.

Revised Standard Version
and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

THE MESSAGE
Love God , your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: ⁵ And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. ⁶ Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; ⁷ Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up. ⁸ Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow; ⁹ Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns. ¹⁰ And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building; ¹¹ And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full; ¹² Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. ¹³ Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou shalt: Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 11:13, Deuteronomy 30:6, Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Mark 12:33, Luke 10:27, 1 John 5:3

God with all: Deuteronomy 4:29, 2 Kings 23:25, Matthew 10:37, John 14:20, John 14:21, 2 Corinthians 5:14, 2 Corinthians 5:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:2 - the Lord Exodus 20:3 - General Numbers 14:24 - followed me Numbers 18:30 - the best Deuteronomy 5:10 - love me Deuteronomy 13:3 - ye love the Lord your God Deuteronomy 26:16 - keep Deuteronomy 30:2 - with all thine heart Joshua 22:5 - love Joshua 23:11 - Take good Judges 5:31 - them that Judges 16:15 - when thine 2 Samuel 6:14 - with all his 1 Kings 2:4 - with all their heart 1 Kings 3:3 - loved 1 Kings 8:48 - And so return 2 Kings 23:3 - with all their heart 2 Chronicles 31:21 - he did it 2 Chronicles 34:31 - with all Psalms 86:12 - with all Proverbs 23:26 - give Romans 7:14 - the law Romans 8:28 - them 1 John 2:7 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,

Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 6:4
There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

Genesis 6:19
And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.

Genesis 6:20
Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.

Genesis 6:21
And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.

Genesis 8:21
And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

Deuteronomy 29:19
If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking whatever chance may give him:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God,.... Which is the first and chief commandment in the law, the sum and substance of the first table of it; and includes in it, or at least has connected with it, knowledge of God, esteem of him, delight in him, faith and trust in him, fear and worship of him, and obedience to him, which when right springs from it. God is to be loved because of the perfections of his nature, and the works of his hand, of nature, providence, and grace; and because of the relations he stands in to men, and especially to his own people; and because of his peculiar love to them; and, indeed, he is to be loved by all men for his care of them, and blessings of goodness bestowed on them; the manner in which this is to be done follows:

with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might; with a superlative love, above all creatures whatever; with the whole of the affections of the heart, with great fervency and ardour of spirit, in the sincerity of the soul, and with all the strength of grace a man has, with such love that is as strong as death. Jarchi interprets loving God with all the heart, that is, with thy heart not divided about God, a heart not divided between God and the creature; "all thy might" he interprets of mammon or substance; and, indeed, that is one way in which men may show their love to God, by laying out their substance in his service, and for the support of his cause and interest in the world. Aben Ezra by "the heart" understands knowledge, and by the "soul" the spirit of man that is in his body, and by might perfect love in the heart.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 of the understanding; the “soul” as the center of will and personality; the “might” as representing the outgoings and energies of all the vital powers.

The New Testament itself requires no more than this total self-surrender of man’s being to his maker Matthew 22:37. The Gospel differs from the Law not so much in replacing an external and carnal service of God by an inward and spiritual one, as in supplying new motives and special assistances for the attainment of that divine love which was, from the first and all along, enjoined as “the first and great commandment.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 6:5. Thou shalt love the Lord, c. — Here we see the truth of that word of the apostle, 1 Timothy 1:5: Now the END of the COMMANDMENT is LOVE out of a pure heart, &c. See the whole of the doctrine contained in this verse explained on Matthew 22:36-40.