### 4. Q. What does God’s law require of us?

**A**. Christ teaches us this in summary in Matthew 22:37-40: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, and with all your strength.”<sup>1</sup> This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”<sup>2</sup> On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

<sup>1</sup> [Deut. 6:5](/index.php/get-passage/Deuteronomy+6:5)
<sup>2</sup> [Lev. 19:18](/index.php/get-passage/Leviticus+19:18)