Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version This is my command: Love each other. New Living Translation This is my command: Love each other. English Standard Version These things I command you, so that you will love one another. Berean Standard Bible This is My command to you: Love one another. Berean Literal Bible These things I command you, that you love one another. King James Bible These things I command you, that ye love one another. New King James Version These things I command you, that you love one another. New American Standard Bible This I command you, that you love one another. NASB 1995 “This I command you, that you love one another. NASB 1977 “This I command you, that you love one another. Legacy Standard Bible This I command you, that you love one another. Amplified Bible This [is what] I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another. Christian Standard Bible “This is what I command you: Love one another. Holman Christian Standard Bible This is what I command you: Love one another. American Standard Version These things I command you, that ye may love one another. Contemporary English Version So I command you to love each other. English Revised Version These things I command you, that ye may love one another. GOD'S WORD® Translation Love each other. This is what I'm commanding you to do. Good News Translation This, then, is what I command you: love one another. International Standard Version I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another." Majority Standard Bible This is My command to you: Love one another. NET Bible This I command you--to love one another. New Heart English Bible "I command these things to you, that you may love one another. Webster's Bible Translation These things I command you, that ye love one another. Weymouth New Testament "Thus I command you to love one another. World English Bible “I command these things to you, that you may love one another. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThese things I command you, that you love one another; Berean Literal Bible These things I command you, that you love one another. Young's Literal Translation 'These things I command you, that ye love one another; Smith's Literal Translation These things I command you, that ye love one another. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThese things I command you, that you love one another. Catholic Public Domain Version This I command you: that you love one another. New American Bible This I command you: love one another. New Revised Standard Version I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleI command these things to you, so that you love one another. Aramaic Bible in Plain English “These things I command you that you will love one another.” NT Translations Anderson New TestamentThese things I command you, that you may love one another. Godbey New Testament Haweis New Testament These things I command you, that ye love one another. Mace New Testament Above all I enjoin you, to love one another. Weymouth New Testament "Thus I command you to love one another. Worrell New Testament Worsley New Testament Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context No Greater Love…16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. 17This is My command to you: Love one another. 18If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.… Cross References 1 John 3:23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us. 1 John 4:21 And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well. John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. / By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” Romans 13:8 Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 1 Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart. 1 John 2:10 Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him. 1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. / Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 5:2-3 By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments. / For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome, Galatians 5:14 The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Ephesians 4:2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, Colossians 3:14 And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity. Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ / This is the first and greatest commandment. / And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ... 1 Thessalonians 4:9 Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. / If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. / If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. James 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. Treasury of Scripture These things I command you, that you love one another. John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 1 Peter 2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. 1 John 3:14-17 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death… Jump to Previous Command LoveJump to Next Command LoveJohn 15 1. The union of Jesus and his members shown under the parable of a vine.18. The hatred of the world. 26. The office of the Holy Spirit. This is My command to you The phrase "This is My command to you" underscores the authoritative nature of Jesus' instruction. The Greek word for "command" is "ἐντολή" (entolē), which implies a directive or order given with authority. In the context of the Gospel of John, Jesus is speaking to His disciples during the Last Supper, a time of intimate teaching and preparation for His impending crucifixion. This command is not merely a suggestion but a divine mandate, reflecting the seriousness with which Jesus imparts His teachings. Historically, commands from a rabbi or teacher were to be followed with utmost respect and obedience, and here, Jesus, as the ultimate Teacher, emphasizes the importance of His directive. Love one another We must beware of the not unfrequent mistake of interpreting "these things" of the words which follow, as if it were, "I command you this, viz., to love one another." The thought is, "I am giving you these precepts that you may love one another." Verses 17-27. - (b) The results of this union with Christ to the unbelieving world. Verse 17. - These things do I command you - clearly pointing back to Ver. 12 - that ye may love one another. This entire meditation culminates where it began. The digression comes back to the main theme Westcott regards it as the starting-point of a new theme, but our Lord did not return upon the idea of mutual love, but discusses the effect upon the world of that love to each other and to him which blended their personalities into one mystic unity. This verse shows how the new topic links itself with the previous discussion. His dying for them, thus proving his friendship for them, and all the other signs of his interest and confidence, have been set before them to this great end; for while the world is full of outrage and mutual animosities, the motive of his own entire self-manifestation is to awaken a new and higher type and model of humanity. Well may the familiar legend of St. John in the churches of Ephesus confirm this sublime truth. From this point to the end of the chapter (Ver. 27) Christ unfolded the consequences, to the unbelieving world, of the sacred union between himself and his disciples, and he discussed the reciprocal relations between his own disciples and the world, seeing that they are united with him in such a close incorporation.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Thisταῦτα (tauta) Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it. is My command ἐντέλλομαι (entellomai) Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Singular Strong's 1781: To give orders (injunctions, instructions, commands). From en and the base of telos; to enjoin. to you: ὑμῖν (hymin) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. Love ἀγαπᾶτε (agapate) Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. one another. ἀλλήλους (allēlous) Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 240: One another, each other. Genitive plural from allos reduplicated; one another. Links John 15:17 NIVJohn 15:17 NLT John 15:17 ESV John 15:17 NASB John 15:17 KJV John 15:17 BibleApps.com John 15:17 Biblia Paralela John 15:17 Chinese Bible John 15:17 French Bible John 15:17 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: John 15:17 I command these things to you that (Jhn Jo Jn) |
    |