Catholic Public Domain Version

Mark 12:25-32 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

25. For when they will be resurrected from the dead, they shall neither marry, nor be given in marriage, but they are like the Angels in heaven.

26. But concerning the dead who rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, how God spoke to him from the bush, saying: 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'

27. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Therefore, you have gone far astray."

28. And one of the scribes, who had heard them arguing, drew near to him. And seeing that he had answered them well, he questioned him as to which was the first commandment of all.

29. And Jesus answered him: "For the first commandment of all is this: 'Listen, O Israel. The Lord your God is one God.

30. And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart, and from your whole soul, and from your whole mind, and from your whole strength. This is the first commandment.'

31. But the second is similar to it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

32. And the scribe said to him: Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth that there is one God, and there is no other beside him;