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Luke 10:27

What does Luke 10:27 mean?

A plain-English look at Luke 10:27 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

What Luke 10:27 means

The lawyer answers by quoting Scripture: love the Lord your God with all heart, soul, strength, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. This twofold command summarizes the law’s essence—total devotion to God and sincere care for others. It balances vertical and horizontal obligations; one cannot be split. The formulation includes intellect and emotion, physical strength and inner life. The lawyer recognizes that eternal life is found in living out wholehearted love toward God and practical compassion toward others.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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 neighbor as thyself.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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 neighbor as thyself.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thyGod with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Context

This verse is the lawyer’s reply to Jesus’ question and condenses the law’s heart into two commands. Jesus will affirm this as the right answer. The lawyer then seeks to justify himself by probing the scope of 'neighbor,' which leads directly into the parable of the Good Samaritan that follows.

v.26And he said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

v.27This passage

v.28And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Galatians 5:13

    For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

  • 1 John 3:18

    My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

  • Matthew 22:37

    And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

  • Deuteronomy 10:12

    And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

  • Leviticus 19:18

    Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

  • Mark 12:33

    and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

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