Matthew 22:40
On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
In Context
39And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
41Now while the Pharisees were together, Jesus put a question to them, saying,
Cross References
Matthew 7:12All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
Romans 3:19Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
1 Timothy 1:5But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:
1 John 4:7My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 22:35-41
The Substance of the Commandments. 34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 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. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as… Read the whole commentary →