Matthew 22:40
On these two precepts depend all the law and the prophets.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
In Context
39Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
41Now while the pharisees were thus gathered together, Jesus asked them,
Cross References
Matthew 7:12All things therefore whatsoever ye would have men do to you, do ye also in like manner unto them: for this is the doctrine of the law and the prophets.
Romans 3:19it saith to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world obnoxious to the justice of God.
1 Timothy 1:5so do, and acquaint them that the end of that charge is charity, out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned:
1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth 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 →