11 translations · Hebrew

Deuteronomy 6:5

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

World English Bible

Deuteronomy 6:5 in 11 translations

WEB World English Bible
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
KJV 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.
BSB 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.
ASV American Standard Version
and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
LSV Literal Standard Version
And you have loved your God YHWH with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
FBV Free Bible Version
You shall love the Lord your God with all your mind and with all your being and with all your strength.
YLT 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,
DBY Darby Translation
and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength.
WBT Webster’s Bible
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.

The Hebrew words

Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.

Word Transliteration English (BSB) Strong’s
וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ wə·’ā·haḇ·tā And you shall love H157 אָהֵב to love: lover
אֵ֖ת ’êṯ — H853 אֵת [Obj.]
יְהוָ֣ה Yah·weh the LORD H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD
אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ ’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā your God H430 אֱלֹהִים God
בְּכָל־ bə·ḵāl with all H3605 כֹּל all
לְבָבְךָ֥ lə·ḇā·ḇə·ḵā your heart H3824 לֵבָב heart
וּבְכָל־ ū·ḇə·ḵāl and with all H3605 כֹּל all
נַפְשְׁךָ֖ nap̄·šə·ḵā your soul H5315 נֶ֫פֶשׁ soul
וּבְכָל־ ū·ḇə·ḵāl and with all H3605 כֹּל all
מְאֹדֶֽךָ׃ mə·’ō·ḏe·ḵā your strength H3966 מְאֹד much
  • Mark 12:30

    you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

  • Matthew 22:37

    Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

  • Luke 10:27

    He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

  • Deuteronomy 10:12

    Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

  • Deuteronomy 30:6

    Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

  • Deuteronomy 4:29

    But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

  • 1 John 5:3

    For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

  • Mark 12:33

    and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

  • Deuteronomy 11:13

    It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

  • John 14:20–21

    In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.

In context

3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

6 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

7 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.

Read all of Deuteronomy 6 in the World English Bible.

Edition and source notes

Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.

Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.

The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.

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