Matthew 22:36 Cross References - BBE

³⁶ Master, which is the chief rule in the law?

¹² Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

¹⁹ Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰ For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.

⁶ There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

²³ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone. ²⁴ You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.

²⁸ And one of the scribes came, and hearing their argument together, and seeing that he had given them a good answer, put the question to him, Which law is the first of all? ²⁹ Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; ³⁰ And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. ³¹ The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these. ³² And the scribe said to him, Truly, Master, you have well said that he is one, and there is no other but he: ³³ And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.

⁴² But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.