The Greatest Commandment (Matthew 22:34–40; Mark 12:28–34)
1 AKJV Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go to possess it: BSB BSB: These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
2 AKJV That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. BSB BSB: so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
3 AKJV Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey. BSB BSB: Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
5 AKJV And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. BSB BSB: And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
6 AKJV And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: BSB BSB: These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
7 AKJV And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. BSB BSB: And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
8 AKJV And you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. BSB BSB: Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
9 AKJV And you shall write them on the posts of your house, and on your gates. BSB BSB: Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
10 AKJV And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and goodly cities, which you built not, BSB BSB: And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
11 AKJV And houses full of all good things, which you filled not, and wells dig, which you digged not, vineyards and olive trees, which you planted not; when you shall have eaten and be full; BSB BSB: with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
12 AKJV Then beware lest you forget the LORD, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. BSB BSB: be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
13 AKJV You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve him, and shall swear by his name. BSB BSB: Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
14 AKJV You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; BSB BSB: Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
15 AKJV (For the LORD your God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and destroy you from off the face of the earth. BSB BSB: For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.
16 AKJV You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah. BSB BSB: Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
17 AKJV You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. BSB BSB: You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.
18 AKJV And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers. BSB BSB: Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
19 AKJV To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken. BSB BSB: driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
Teach Your Children 20 AKJV And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you? BSB BSB: In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
21 AKJV Then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: BSB BSB: then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
22 AKJV And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household, before our eyes: BSB BSB: Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.
23 AKJV And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. BSB BSB: But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.
24 AKJV And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. BSB BSB: And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.
25 AKJV And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us. BSB BSB: And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”