Mark 12:30 (BSB)

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

From Mark 12. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Mark 12:30

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 12:28-34: The scribes and Pharisees were (however bad otherwise) enemies to the Sadducees; now one would have expected that, when they heard Christ argue so well against the Sadducees, they would have countenanced him, as they did Paul when he appeared against the Sadducees (Act 23:9); but it had not the effect: because he did not fall in with them in the ceremonials of religion, he...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 12:30: And the Scribe said unto him,.... This reply of the Scribe, is not related by Matthew: well, Master, thou hast said the truth: what thou hast said is truth, and thou hast expressed it in a most beautiful manner: the Scribe was charmed with his answer, and could not forbear speaking in commendation of it, and even before the multitude, and those of his own...
• Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 12:30: Verse 30. And thou shalt love. If Jehovah was the only God, then they ought not to love any other being supremely. Then they might not bow down before any idol. They were required to love God above all other beings or things, and with all the faculties of their minds.
• Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Mark 12:30: Thou shalt love the Lord - On the nature and properties of the love of God and man, and the way in which this commandment is fulfilled, see the notes on Mat 22:37, etc.