CCC 2055
Life in Christ›SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
When someone asks him, "Which commandment in the Law is the greatest?" Jesus replies: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. and a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the prophets." The Decalogue must be interpreted in light of this twofold yet single commandment of love, the fullness of the Law: the commandments: "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. The Decalogue in Sacred Scripture
Footnotes
- ⇒ Mt 22:36.
- ⇒ Mt 22:37-40; cf. ⇒ Deut 6:5; ⇒ Lev 19:18.
- ⇒ Rom 13:9-10.