11 translations · Greek
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.’
Matthew 22:37 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
- KJV King James Version
- Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
- ASV American Standard Version
- And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- And Jesus said to him, “You will love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your understanding—
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Jesus told them, “‘Love the Lord your God in all you think, in all you feel, and in all you do.’
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- And Jesus said to him, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding —
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he said to him, Thou shalt love [the] Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ὁ | Ho | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| δὲ | de | — | G1161 δέ then |
| ἔφη | ephē | [Jesus] declared | G5346 φημί to assert |
| αὐτῷ | autō | — | G846 αὐτός it/s/he |
| Ἀγαπήσεις | Agapēseis | Love | G25 ἀγαπάω to love |
| κύριον | kyrion | [the] Lord | G2962 κύριος lord: God |
| τὸν | ton | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Θεόν | Theon | God | G2316 θεός God |
| σου | sou | your | G4771 σύ you |
| ἐν | en | with | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| ὅλῃ | holē | all | G3650 ὅλος all |
| τῇ | tē | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| καρδίᾳ | kardia | heart | G2588 καρδία heart |
| σου | sou | your | G4771 σύ you |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| ἐν | en | with | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| ὅλῃ | holē | all | G3650 ὅλος all |
| τῇ | tē | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ψυχῇ | psychē | soul | G5590 ψυχή soul |
| σου | sou | your | G4771 σύ you |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| ἐν | en | with | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| ὅλῃ | holē | all | G3650 ὅλος all |
| τῇ | tē | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| διανοίᾳ | dianoia | mind | G1271 διάνοια mind |
| σου | sou | your | G4771 σύ you |
Related verses
- Mark 12:29–30
Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: 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.
- 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 6:5
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
- 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,
- 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 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.
- 1 John 5:2–5
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. …
- Hebrews 10:16–17
“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says, “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”
- Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
35 One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”
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 A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Read all of Matthew 22 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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