The Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4)

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

The Shema itself: 'Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD' — and the command to love God with all one's heart, soul, and might, teaching it diligently to children.

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

The Shema itself: 'Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD' — and the command to love God with all one's heart, soul, and might, teaching it diligently to children.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

The Shema itself: 'Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD' — and the command to love God with all one's heart, soul, and might, teaching it diligently to children.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

The Shema itself: 'Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD' — and the command to love God with all one's heart, soul, and might, teaching it diligently to children.

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

The Shema itself: 'Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD' — and the command to love God with all one's heart, soul, and might, teaching it diligently to children.

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

The Shema itself: 'Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD' — and the command to love God with all one's heart, soul, and might, teaching it diligently to children.

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

Jesus quotes the Shema as the first and greatest commandment.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

Jesus quotes the Shema as the first and greatest commandment.

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.

Jesus identifies wholehearted love of God as the great commandment.

This is the first and great commandment.

Jesus identifies wholehearted love of God as the great commandment.

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

The lawyer answers Jesus by reciting the Shema's command to love God fully.

Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.

Affirms that the LORD alone is God, there is none else — undergirding the Shema's monotheism.

And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Second paragraph traditionally joined to the Shema, on loving and obeying God.

That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

Second paragraph traditionally joined to the Shema, on loving and obeying God.

And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

Second paragraph traditionally joined to the Shema, on loving and obeying God.

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Second paragraph traditionally joined to the Shema, on loving and obeying God.

And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

Second paragraph traditionally joined to the Shema, on loving and obeying God.

Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

Second paragraph traditionally joined to the Shema, on loving and obeying God.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Second paragraph traditionally joined to the Shema, on loving and obeying God.

And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

Second paragraph traditionally joined to the Shema, on loving and obeying God.

That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Second paragraph traditionally joined to the Shema, on loving and obeying God.

I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

'I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me' — echoes the Shema's monotheism.

That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

'I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me' — echoes the Shema's monotheism.

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

Paul reaffirms 'there is none other God but one' in light of Christ.

For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

Paul reaffirms 'there is none other God but one' in light of Christ.

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Paul reaffirms 'there is none other God but one' in light of Christ.

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

'Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well' — references the Shema's core confession.