And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
A lawyer puts the question to trap Christ: what must I do to inherit eternal life? But a good question asked with a mean or contentious spirit is no good question at all. If we speak of eternal life as mere matter of dispute, we take God's name in vain.
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Commenting on Luke 10:25-37
Love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind; love your neighbor as yourself. This sums the law entirely. Yet Christ's words cut deeper: the law demands complete and perfect performance, which exposes the impossibility of gaining life by works.
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Verses 27-28. ; ; ; . Verse 27. (c) "Thou shalt love" (d) "thy neighbour as"