Mark 12:29
Good News Translation
Jesus replied, "The most important one is this: 'Listen, Israel! The Lord our God is the only Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one;

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered, "The most important one says: 'People of Israel, you have only one Lord and God.

New American Bible
Jesus replied, “The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God.

Hear.

Mark 12:32,33 And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in truth that there is one God and there is no other besides him. . . .

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:

Deuteronomy 30:6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.

Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.

Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

Luke 10:27 He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself.

1 Timothy 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.

Context
The Greatest Commandment
28And there came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which was the first commandment of all. 29And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God. 30And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

Psalm 86:10
For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

James 2:19
Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble.

Mark 12:28
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