Deuteronomy 6:5

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!

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.

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.

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.

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 Attention, Israel! God , our God! God the one and only! ⁵ Love God , your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got! ⁶Write these commandments that I've given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder; inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates. ¹⁰When God , your God, ushers you into the land he promised through your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you, you're going to walk into large, bustling cities you didn't build, well-furnished houses you didn't buy, come upon wells you didn't dig, vineyards and olive orchards you didn't plant. When you take it all in and settle down, pleased and content, make sure you don't forget how you got there— God brought you out of slavery in Egypt. ¹³Deeply respect God , your God. Serve and worship him exclusively. Back up your promises with his name only. Don't fool around with other gods, the gods of your neighbors, because God , your God, who is alive among you is a jealous God. Don't provoke him, igniting his hot anger that would burn you right off the face of the Earth. Don't push God , your God, to the wall as you did that day at Massah, the Testing-Place. Carefully keep the commands of God , your God, all the requirements and regulations he gave you. Do what is right; do what is good in God 's sight so you'll live a good life and be able to march in and take this pleasant land that God so solemnly promised through your ancestors, throwing out your enemies left and right—exactly as God said.

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
When the human race began to increase, with more and more daughters being born, the sons of God noticed that the daughters of men were beautiful. They looked them over and picked out wives for themselves.

Genesis 6:3
Then God said, "I'm not going to breathe life into men and women endlessly. Eventually they're going to die; from now on they can expect a life span of 120 years."

Genesis 6:4
This was back in the days (and also later) when there were giants in the land. The giants came from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men. These were the mighty men of ancient lore, the famous ones.

Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah: Noah was a good man, a man of integrity in his community. Noah walked with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 13:13
The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God .

Jeremiah 17:9
"The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out. But I, God , search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be."

Ezekiel 8:9
He said, "Now walk through the door and take a look at the obscenities they're engaging in."

Ezekiel 8:12
He said, "Son of man, do you see what the elders are doing here in the dark, each one before his favorite god-picture? They tell themselves, ‘ God doesn't see us. God has forsaken the country.'"

Titus 3:3
It wasn't so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, dupes of sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God's gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there's more life to come—an eternity of life! You can count on this. I want you to put your foot down. Take a firm stand on these matters so that those who have put their trust in God will concentrate on the essentials that are good for everyone. Stay away from mindless, pointless quarreling over genealogies and fine print in the law code. That gets you nowhere. Warn a quarrelsome person once or twice, but then be done with him. It's obvious that such a person is out of line, rebellious against God. By persisting in divisiveness he cuts himself off. As soon as I send either Artemas or Tychicus to you, come immediately and meet me in Nicopolis. I've decided to spend the winter there. Give Zenas the lawyer and Apollos a hearty send-off. Take good care of them. Our people have to learn to be diligent in their work so that all necessities are met (especially among the needy) and they don't end up with nothing to show for their lives. All here want to be remembered to you. Say hello to our friends in the faith. Grace to all of you.

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.