2083 Jesus summed up man's duties toward God in this saying: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind."1 This immediately echoes the solemn call: "Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD."2 God has loved us first. The love of the One God is recalled in the first of the "ten words." The commandments then make explicit the response of love that man is called to give to his God.  
 

                     "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF"

          Jesus said to his disciples: "Love one another even as I have loved you."1

       2196 In response to the question about the first of the commandments, Jesus says: "The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and 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.' The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."2

          The apostle St. Paul reminds us of this: "He who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. The
commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,' and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, ‘You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.' Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."3