For 2016, I will make an attempt to change the blog posts that I make. I’ll be ending the longer devotional posts and start to focus on one or more posts each day that represent just an meaningful verse or two. When possible I will try to classify the verse under one of these four categories taken from the great first commandment. Looking at how the verse speaks to this command.
Deu 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deu 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deu 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
John Gill quotes “Aben Ezra by “the heart” understands knowledge, and by the “soul” the spirit of man that is in his body, and by might perfect love in the heart.”
Jesus reconfirmed this in the Mark verse above as well as these captured by the other gospel writers.
Mat 22:37 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.
Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Luk 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
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