¹⁶ In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.

⁶ And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

⁵ And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

³⁷ And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

³⁸ This is the first and greatest rule.

²¹ He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

² In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

³ For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.