Deuteronomy 6:5 (LSB)

Passage

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 6:3 O Israel, you shall listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh is one!

Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 6:6 These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.

Deuteronomy 6:7 You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shall", "love", "yahweh", "heart", "soul", and "might". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "shall" and "love", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 4's "Hear O Israel Yahweh is our God..." into verse 6's "These words which I am commanding you...", so "shall" and "love" belong inside that flow. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "shall" and "love" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.