Love With Whole Mind & Strength
Love with your whole heart – soul – mind – strength – What does that mean?
Matthew 22:37 (ESV) Jesus words: 37And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Mark 12:30 (ESV) Jesus words: 30And 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.’
MIND
There are several different Greek words that are translators have translated it as “Mind” – Below are THREE that the Greek word used in Matt. 22:37 & Mark 12:30 that means “Intelligence, mind”
Matthew 22:37 (ESV) – 37And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Mark 12:30 (ESV) – 30And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mindand with all your strength.’
Luke 10:27 (ESV) – 27And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Hebrews 8:10 (ESV) – 10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Hebrews 10:16 (ESV) – 16“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”
Mind.Man’s intellectual processes in a narrow sense or, more broadly, the sum total of a man’s mental and moral state of being. To the Hebrew way of thinking there is no distinctive terminology for the conception of mind. To the Greek world mind plays a very important role in the understanding of man. In the OT there was no separate word that could be used for a man’s mind. Translators of the English versions have supplied other words (soul, spirit, or heart) as the context dictates. Thus precise distinctions between these terms are hard to define. Generally, one might say that a man in his totality is a soul but he has a spirit and a heart. All of these terms may represent his mind. This means that the widely held distinction between the mind as the seat of thinking and the heart as the seat of feeling is alien to the meaning these terms carry in the OT. The concept of the soul relates to “person” or “personality.” When it refers to the mind the term indicates that the mind is distinct …
BEB
MIND (Noun and Verb) A. Nouns. 1. nous (νου̂ς, 3563), “mind,” denotes, speaking generally, the seat of reflective consciousness, comprising the faculties of perception and understanding, and those of feeling, judging and determining. Its use in the NT may be analyzed as follows: it denotes (a) the faculty of knowing, the seat of the understanding, Luke 24:45; Rom. 1:28; 14:5; 1 Cor. 14:15, 19; Eph. 4:17; Phil. 4:7; Col. 2:18; 1 Tim. 6:5; 2 Tim. 3:8; Titus 1:15; Rev. 13:18; 17:9; (b …
VCEDONTW
1 Corinthians 14:15 (ESV) – 15What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.
MindIn the English Bible “mind” translates a number of different words with wide-ranging connotations …. The two principal Greek words translated as “mind” in the NT are noús and phrónēma and their cognates. Gk. noús signifies the capacity of mental perception, the mind as the source of thinking and understanding. It also refers to the results of such action, i.e., one’s attitude, thought, or opinion.…
EDB
1 Corinthians 14:19 (ESV) – 19Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mindin order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Romans 12:2 (ESV) – 2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
The Mind – is essential in our walk with God because out of it we declare our ‘worship’, give ‘witness’ about His love and truth, and by it we are to hold an accurate understanding of His Word as this is the location God’s Spirit renews our thinking.
Next Strength
Strength
Note the Matthew’s verse does NOT have “Strength” in it. The Greek word is translated “Strength” or “Might”:
Mark 12:30 (ESV) – 30And 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.’
Mark 12:33 (ESV) – 33And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Luke 10:27 (ESV) – 27And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strengthand with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
1 Peter 4:11 (ESV) – 11whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strengththat God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Matthew 22:37 (ESV) – 37And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. It does NOT have “Strength” in its scripture.
strengthnoun 1 synonyms power 4, arm, beef, energy, force, might, muscle, potency, sinew, strong arm related words brawn; sturdiness, toughness; healthiness, soundness contrasted words feebleness antonyms weakness 2 synonyms stability, firmness, security, soundness, stableness, steadiness 3 synonyms substance 2, body, burden, core, gist, meat, pith, purport, sense, sum and substance
MWCT
strength/strɛŋƟ, strɛŋkƟ/ ■ noun1 the quality or state of being strong. 2 a good or beneficial quality or attribute. ▶ literarya source of mental or emotional support. 3 the number of people comprising a group. ▶ a full complement of people: below strength. – phrases go from strength to strengthprogress with increasing success. in strengthin large numbers. on the strength ofon the basis or with the justification of. the strength ofchiefly Austral./NZthe meaning of; the truth about. tower (or pillar) of strengtha person who can be relied upon to support and comfort others. – derivatives strengthlessadjective– origin Old English strengthu, from the Germanic base of strong.
COED
STRENGTHThe Lord is my s and my song; Ex 15:2 all your soul, and with all your s. Dt 6:5 does not prevail by {his own} s. 1 Sm 2:9 I love You, Lord, my s. Ps 18:1 The Lord is my s and my shield; Ps 28:7 God is our refuge and s, a helper Ps 46:1 ascribe to the Lord glory and s. Ps 96:7 in the Lord will renew their s; Is 40:31 Not by s or by might, but by My Zch 4:6 your mind, and with all your s. Mk 12:30 from the s God provides, 1 Pt 4:11
ASB:RQSASF
Basically it means the ability to produce something. Thus, God expects us to use “Self” to glorify His Name.
Romans 15:9 (ESV) -…9and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”
God promises ‘strength’ for our day
God is our strength
Psalm 86:16 (ESV) – 16 Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant.
Ephesians 3:16 (ESV) – 16that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
2 Timothy 4:17 (ESV) – 17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.