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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Mark 12:33 Catholic Bible: And you must love God with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your strength; and you must love your neighbor as you love yourself. It is more important to obey these two commandments than to offer on the altar animals and other sacrifices to God." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/mark/12-33.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/mark/12-33.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/mark/12-33.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/mark/1.htm">Mark</a> > <a href="/gntd/mark/12.htm">Chapter 12</a> > Verse 33</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../mark/12-32.htm" title="Mark 12:32">◄</a> Mark 12:33 <a href="../mark/12-34.htm" title="Mark 12:34">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/mark/12.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/mark/12.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />And you must love God with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your strength; and you must love your neighbor as you love yourself. It is more important to obey these two commandments than to offer on the altar animals and other sacrifices to God." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/mark/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />and ‘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,’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/mark/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />It is also true that we must love God with all our heart, mind, and strength, and that we must love others as much as we love ourselves. These commandments are more important than all the sacrifices and offerings that we could possibly make." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/mark/12.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />And ‘to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself’ is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/mark/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And that he should be loved with the whole heart and with the whole understanding and with the whole soul and with the whole strength. And to love one's neighbour as one's self is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And that he should be loved with the whole heart and with the whole understanding and with the whole soul and with the whole strength. And to love one's neighbour as one's self is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.</p><p class="hdg">is more.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a> And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/50-8.htm">Psalm 50:8-15,23</a> I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/21-3.htm">Proverbs 21:3</a> To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11-17</a> To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/58-5.htm">Isaiah 58:5-7</a> Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day? is this it, to wind his head about like a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21-23</a> Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/6-6.htm">Hosea 6:6</a> For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21-24</a> I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/6-6.htm">Micah 6:6-8</a> What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/9-13.htm">Matthew 9:13</a> Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/12-7.htm">Matthew 12:7</a> And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/13-1.htm">1 Corinthians 13:1-3</a> If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/mark/12.htm">The Greatest Commandment</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">32</span>And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in truth that there is one God and there is no other besides him. <span class="reftext">33</span><span class="highl">And that he should be loved with the whole heart and with the whole understanding and with the whole soul and with the whole strength. And to love one's neighbour as one's self is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.</span> <span class="reftext">34</span>And Jesus seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him: Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/6-5.htm">Deuteronomy 6:5</a></span><br />Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a></span><br />And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/6-6.htm">Hosea 6:6</a></span><br />For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../micah/6-6.htm">Micah 6:6</a></span><br />What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/9-13.htm">Matthew 9:13</a></span><br />Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/12-7.htm">Matthew 12:7</a></span><br />And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hebrews/10-8.htm">Hebrews 10:8</a></span><br />In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/mark/9-47.htm">Better</a> <a href="/mark/4-6.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/micah/6-6.htm">Burnt-Offerings</a> <a href="/mark/8-3.htm">Far</a> <a href="/mark/12-31.htm">Fellow</a> <a href="/mark/4-32.htm">Forms</a> <a href="/jeremiah/33-18.htm">gs</a> <a href="/mark/12-30.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/mark/12-29.htm">Important</a> <a href="/mark/12-31.htm">Love</a> <a href="/mark/12-30.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/mark/12-31.htm">Neighbor</a> <a href="/mark/12-31.htm">Neighbour</a> <a href="/mark/1-44.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/mark/12-23.htm">One's</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-14.htm">Oneself</a> <a href="/mark/1-44.htm">Sacrifices</a> <a href="/mark/12-30.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/mark/12-30.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/mark/12-30.htm">Understanding</a> <a href="/mark/12-30.htm">Whole</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/mark/14-21.htm">Better</a> <a href="/acts/19-19.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-6.htm">Burnt-Offerings</a> <a href="/mark/12-34.htm">Far</a> <a href="/mark/14-69.htm">Fellow</a> <a href="/romans/1-30.htm">Forms</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-6.htm">gs</a> <a href="/mark/14-34.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/mark/12-39.htm">Important</a> <a href="/mark/12-38.htm">Love</a> <a href="/mark/14-72.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/luke/10-27.htm">Neighbor</a> <a href="/luke/10-27.htm">Neighbour</a> <a href="/mark/12-41.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/luke/12-15.htm">One's</a> <a href="/philippians/2-6.htm">Oneself</a> <a href="/luke/13-1.htm">Sacrifices</a> <a href="/mark/14-34.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/mark/14-37.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/mark/12-34.htm">Understanding</a> <a href="/mark/12-44.htm">Whole</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: all and as burnt heart him himself important is love more much neighbor offerings one's sacrifices strength than the To understanding with your yourself<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/mark/12-33.htm">NT Gospels: Mark 12:33 And to love him with all (Mar Mk Mr) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../mark/12-32.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Mark 12:32"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Mark 12:32" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../mark/12-34.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Mark 12:34"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Mark 12:34" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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