This is the first and greatest ¹  commandment.

“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” ¹ 

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. ¹  The old commandment is the word that you have already ²  heard.

Now ¹  this is his commandment: ²  that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave ³  us the commandment.

He answered them, ¹  “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts. ¹ 

The second is: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ¹  There is no other commandment greater than these.”

My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you. ¹ 

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died. ¹ 

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

“Honor your father and mother,” ¹  which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up ¹  your tradition.

Then ¹  they returned and prepared aromatic spices ²  and perfumes. ³  On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. ⁴ 

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

and I died. So ¹  I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death! ² 

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, ¹  namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.” ² 

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. ¹  Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.” ² 

“I give you a new commandment – to love ¹  one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. ² 

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. ¹  For apart from the law, sin is dead.

I want you to recall ¹  both ²  the predictions ³  foretold by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles. ⁴