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Luke 10:27-31 English Standard Version (ESV)

27. And 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.”

28. And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”

29. But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

30. Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead.

31. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.