Matthew 22:37-38

Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Matthew 22 · Words of Christ are set in red.

2 songs meet this passage

“I live my life for you”
I Live My Life for You · FireHouse
strains against Matthew 22:37-38
The totalizing language of living entirely for another person stands in tension with the call to love God first and foremost; human love is meant to flow from that center, not replace it.
dangerously in love · beyonce
strains against Matthew 22:37
Jesus calls us to love God with our whole heart and being. The song's language of needing a person more than air gently bumps against this priority, raising the question of where ultimate dependence belongs.