But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. Which is the first commandment of all? Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, and with all thy strength.
This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Master, thou hast said the truth: there is one God, and none other but he: and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.
