Deuteronomy 6:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Ver. 5. And thou shalt love.] See Trapp on " Mat 22:37 " This shows the impossibility of keeping the law perfectly: Ita ut frustra sint sophistae, &c. The true Christian counts all that he can do for God but a little of that much he owes him, and that he could gladly beteem him. But what a wretched monk was that that died with these words in his mouth, Redde mihi aeternam vitam quam debes; Lord, pay me heaven, for thou owest it!

Deuteronomy 6:5

5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.