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Luke 10:27
New English Translation
Luke 10:27
New English Translation
27 The expert[a] answered, “Love[b] the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,[c] and love your neighbor as yourself.”[d]
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- Luke 10:27 tn Grk “And he”; the referent (the expert in religious law, shortened here to “the expert”) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
- Luke 10:27 tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).
- Luke 10:27 sn A quotation from Deut 6:5. The fourfold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.
- Luke 10:27 tn This portion of the reply is a quotation from Lev 19:18. The verb is repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.
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