Matthew 22:37-40

Love alone matters. 

LOVE your enemies too because even the heathen loves those that love him. Help me Father to love all people but still be able to base decisions on Your biblical truth alone. Help me to b a voice for those who have no voice in our culture today. let me be as wise as a serpent but as gentle as the lamb of god.

The world is our neighbor!

To answer the lawyer’s question, Jesus quoted from the great Jewish confession of faith called the Shema. The confession is called this because it begins with the Hebrew word shema meaning “hear:” “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!”. The heart, soul, and mind represent the whole person. Because we love ourselves, we want the best for ourselves; likewise, we should be concerned for the welfare of others.

The Ten Commandments can be divided into two categories: those dealing with love for God (the first four Commandments) and those dealing with responsibilities toward other people (the last six Commandments). The same may be said for all the Law and the Prophets. NKJ Bible.

The heart, soul, and mind collectively represent the whole person; one should love God with total love and devotion.The commands to love God and others do not replace the instructions of the Law or the teaching of the Prophets. Rather, obedience to this twofold commandment fulfills the essence of their teaching. Faithlife Bible.

Matthew 22:37–40 (NKJV)

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.’ ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

Luke 6:31

¹² Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.