<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . The specific problem is: Duplicated statements; confused grammar Please help improve this article if you can . (January 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Great Commandment (or Greatest Commandment) is a name used in the New Testament to describe the first of two commandments cited by Jesus in Matthew 22: 35--40 and Mark 12: 28--34 . These two commandments are paraphrases taken from the Old Testament and are commonly seen as important to Jewish and Christian ethics . </P> <P> In Mark, when asked "which is the great commandment in the law?", the Greek New Testament reports that Jesus answered, "Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God, The Lord is One; Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind", before also referring to a second commandment, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself ." Most Christian denominations consider these two commandments the core of the Christian religion . </P> <P> Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind . This is the first and great commandment . And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself . On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets . </P>

The first commandment is this love the lord