Mark 12:30-31
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Mark 12 · Words of Christ are set in red.
2 songs meet this passage
Happy People (Radio Edit) · R. Kelly
resonates with Mark 12:30-31
The outro's call to love God and neighbor directly echoes Jesus's summary of the law, a striking turn within an otherwise secular party song.
“When you learn to love yourself”
Stay the Same · Joey McIntyre
strains against Mark 12:31
Jesus assumes self-love as a baseline and calls for love of neighbor; the song makes self-love the goal itself rather than a starting point for loving others.