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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

约翰福音 15:14

你們若行我所吩咐你們的,就是我的朋友了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Duty;   Friends;   Obedience;   Righteous;   Works;   Scofield Reference Index - Separation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abiding in Christ;   Christ;   Commands;   Divine;   Fellowship-Estrangement;   Friendship;   Friendship-Friendlessness;   Nearness to God;   Vine;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Choosing/chosen;   Comfort;   Enemies;   Friendship;   Hate;   Holy Spirit;   Jesus Christ;   Obedience;   Ordination;   Persecution;   Prayer;   Sending and Those Sent;   Servants;   Sin;   Truth;   Witness;   World;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Conduct, Christian;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Comforter;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Love;   Obedience;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Christians, Names of;   Friend, Friendship;   Spirituality;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Adoption;   Union to Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Friend, Friendship;   John, the Gospel of;   John, the Letters of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Children (Sons) of God;   Conscience;   God;   Holy Spirit;   John, Theology of;   Joy;   Vine, Vineyard;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Friendship;   Man (2);   Quotations (2);   Religion (2);   Religious Experience;   Reward;   Righteous, Righteousness;   Self-Examination;   Social Life;   Steward, Stewardship;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abraham ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fruit;   Pentecost;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Friend;   Lord's Supper (Eucharist);  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 16;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 17;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 若 遵 行 我 所 吩 咐 的 , 就 是 我 的 朋 友 了 。

Contextual Overview

9 I loved you as the Father loved me. Now remain in my love. 10 I have obeyed my Father's commands, and I remain in his love. In the same way, if you obey my commands, you will remain in my love. 11 I have told you these things so that you can have the same joy I have and so that your joy will be the fullest possible joy. 12 "This is my command: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 The greatest love a person can show is to die for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me; I chose you. And I gave you this work: to go and produce fruit, fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my: John 14:15, John 14:28, 2 Chronicles 20:7, Song of Solomon 5:1, Isaiah 41:8, Matthew 12:50, Luke 12:4, James 2:23

if: John 2:5, John 13:17, John 14:21, 1 John 5:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:22 - General Exodus 7:6 - General Exodus 12:50 - as the Lord Exodus 17:10 - Joshua Exodus 33:11 - his friend Leviticus 18:4 - General Leviticus 18:26 - keep Numbers 9:5 - according Deuteronomy 4:1 - unto the statutes Deuteronomy 5:10 - love me Deuteronomy 5:29 - keep all Deuteronomy 11:32 - General Deuteronomy 12:28 - General Deuteronomy 27:1 - Keep all Deuteronomy 28:1 - to do all Judges 6:27 - and did Judges 13:14 - all that I Ruth 3:6 - and did 1 Samuel 9:27 - Bid the servant 2 Samuel 15:15 - Behold 2 Samuel 22:23 - For all 1 Kings 4:5 - the king's 1 Kings 13:9 - For 1 Kings 17:5 - did according 2 Kings 18:6 - kept 1 Chronicles 14:16 - did as God 2 Chronicles 6:16 - keep Nehemiah 10:29 - to observe Psalms 106:3 - Blessed Psalms 119:6 - I have Psalms 119:48 - unto thy Proverbs 7:2 - Keep Proverbs 17:17 - General Proverbs 18:24 - there Song of Solomon 1:9 - O my Jeremiah 13:2 - according Jeremiah 18:3 - I went Jeremiah 32:23 - they have Ezekiel 12:7 - I did so Ezekiel 18:11 - that Matthew 1:24 - did Matthew 7:24 - whosoever Matthew 11:1 - commanding Matthew 21:6 - and did Matthew 26:19 - the disciples Mark 14:13 - Go Luke 5:5 - nevertheless Luke 8:21 - My mother Luke 15:6 - his 1 Corinthians 7:19 - but 2 Corinthians 5:16 - know we no Philippians 4:9 - do 1 John 2:3 - if we 2 John 1:6 - this is love

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things happened, the Lord spoke his word to Abram in a vision: "Abram, don't be afraid. I will defend you, and I will give you a great reward."
Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, "Lord God , what can you give me? I have no son, so my slave Eliezer from Damascus will get everything I own after I die."
Genesis 15:4
Then the Lord spoke his word to Abram: "He will not be the one to inherit what you have. You will have a son of your own who will inherit what you have."
Genesis 15:5
Then God led Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky. There are so many stars you cannot count them. Your descendants also will be too many to count."
Genesis 15:6
Abram believed the Lord . And the Lord accepted Abram's faith, and that faith made him right with God.
Genesis 15:7
God said to Abram, "I am the Lord who led you out of Ur of Babylonia so that I could give you this land to own."
Genesis 15:9
The Lord said to Abram, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old goat, a three-year-old male sheep, a dove, and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:11
Later, large birds flew down to eat the animals, but Abram chased them away.
Genesis 15:14
But I will punish the nation where they are slaves. Then your descendants will leave that land, taking great wealth with them.
Genesis 15:18
So on that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram and said, "I will give to your descendants the land between the river of Egypt and the great river Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye are my friends,.... This is an application of the foregoing passage, and more, clearly explains it. The character of "friends", is applied to the disciples of Christ; and belongs, not only to his apostles, but to all that love him, believe in him, and obey him; to whom he has showed himself friendly, by laying down his life for them: for this clearly shows, that Christ had respect in the former words, to his own laying down his life for his people, in consequence of his great love to them; whereby he has made them friends, and who appear to be so by their cheerful obedience to him:

if ye do whatsoever I command you; not that their doing of the commandments of Christ interested them in his favour; or made them his friends; or was the reason and motive of his laying down his life for them, and showing himself in such a friendly manner to them: but the sense is, that by observing his commands from a principle of love, they would make it appear that they were his friends, being influenced by his grace, and constrained by a sense of his love in dying for them, to act such a part.


 
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