Matthew 22:40 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets.

American Standard Version (1901)

On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.

Common English Bible

All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

On these two commandments the entire law depends, and also the prophets."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

Matthew 22:40 Cross References

Matthew 7:12

So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

John 1:17

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Romans 13:9

The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Galatians 5:14

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

1 Timothy 1:5

whereas the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith.

James 2:8

If you really fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.