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40 [a](A)The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

The Question About David’s Son.[b]

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  1. 22:40 The double commandment is the source from which the whole law and the prophets are derived.
  2. 22:41–46 Having answered the questions of his opponents in the preceding three controversies, Jesus now puts a question to them about the sonship of the Messiah. Their easy response (Mt 22:43a) is countered by his quoting a verse of Ps 110 that raises a problem for their response (43b–45). They are unable to solve it and from that day on their questioning of him is ended.

40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”(A)

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[a]Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated,(A) it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,(B) it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.(C)

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  1. 13:4–7 This paragraph is developed by personification and enumeration, defining love by what it does or does not do. The Greek contains fifteen verbs; it is natural to translate many of them by adjectives in English.

Love is patient,(A) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(B) It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(C) it is not easily angered,(D) it keeps no record of wrongs.(E) Love does not delight in evil(F) but rejoices with the truth.(G) It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.(H)

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