John 15:12

Amplified Bible

"This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved

King James Version (1611)
This is my Commaundement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.

King James Version
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

English Standard Version
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

New American Standard Bible
"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

New Century Version
"This is my command: Love each other as I have loved you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

Legacy Standard Bible
"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

Berean Standard Bible
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Contemporary English Version
Now I tell you to love each other, as I have loved you.

Complete Jewish Bible
"This is my command: that you keep on loving each other just as I have loved you.

Darby Translation
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Easy-to-Read Version
This is what I command you: Love each other as I have loved you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
This is my commandement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.

George Lamsa Translation
This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

Good News Translation
My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.

Lexham English Bible
This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.

Literal Translation
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I loved you.

American Standard Version
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

Bible in Basic English
This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

Hebrew Names Version
"This is my mitzvah, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

International Standard Version
"This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.John 13:34; 1 Thessalonians 4:9; 1 Peter 4:8; 1 John 3:11; 4:21;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.

Murdock Translation
This is my command, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
This is my commaundement, that ye loue together, as I haue loued you.

English Revised Version
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

World English Bible
"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Weymouth's New Testament
This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is my comaundement, that ye loue togidere, as Y louede you.

Update Bible Version
This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Webster's Bible Translation
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

New English Translation
My commandment is this—to love one another just as I have loved you.

New King James Version
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

New Living Translation
This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.

New Life Bible
"This is what I tell you to do: Love each other just as I have loved you.

New Revised Standard
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is my own commandment, That ye be loving one another, just as I loved you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.

Revised Standard Version
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
This is my commaundement that ye love togedder as I have loved you.

Young's Literal Translation
`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is my comaundement, that ye loue together, as I haue loued you.

Mace New Testament (1729)
this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Take care of others like I am taking care of you. That is my command.

Contextual Overview

⁹"I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love [and do not doubt My love for you]. ¹⁰"If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love. ¹¹"I have told you these things so that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing. ¹²"This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you.¹³"No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends. ¹⁴"You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you. ¹⁵"I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you [My] friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father. ¹⁶"You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed and placed and purposefully planted you, so that you would go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit will remain and be lasting, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name [as My representative] He may give to you. ¹⁷"This [is what] I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 13:34, Romans 12:10, Ephesians 5:2, 1 Thessalonians 3:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 2 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 3:8, 1 Peter 4:8, 1 John 2:7-10, 1 John 3:11-18, 1 John 3:23, 1 John 4:21

Reciprocal: John 14:5 - we know not John 15:17 - General Galatians 6:2 - the law Colossians 3:14 - charity 1 John 2:8 - a new 1 John 3:14 - because 1 John 3:16 - and we 1 John 4:11 - General 2 John 1:5 - that we

Cross-References

Genesis 2:21
So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and while he slept, He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

Genesis 15:3
And Abram continued, "Since You have given no child to me, one (a servant) born in my house is my heir."

Genesis 15:5
And the LORD brought Abram outside [his tent into the night] and said, "Look now toward the heavens and count the stars—if you are able to count them." Then He said to him, "So [numerous] shall your descendants be."

Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord GOD, by what [proof] will I know that I will inherit it?"

Genesis 15:9
So God said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

Genesis 15:13
God said to Abram, "Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

Genesis 15:14
"But on that nation whom your descendants will serve I will bring judgment, and afterward they will come out [of that land] with great possessions.

1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the jug of water from beside Saul's head, and they left, and no one saw or knew nor did anyone awaken, because they were all sound asleep, for a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

Job 33:15
"In a dream, a vision of the night [one may hear God's voice], When deep sleep falls on men While slumbering upon the bed,

Acts 20:9
and there was a young man named Eutychus ("Lucky") sitting on the window sill. He was sinking into a deep sleep, and as Paul kept on talking longer and longer, he was completely overcome by sleep and fell down from the third story; and he was picked up dead.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This is my commandment, that ye love one another,.... Christ had been before speaking of his commandments; and he mentions this as the principal one, and to which all the rest may be reduced; for as the precepts of the second table of the moral law may be briefly comprehended in this one duty, love to our neighbour, so all the duties of Christianity, relative to one another, are reducible to this, by love to serve each other. This was the commandment which lay uppermost on Christ's heart, and which he knew, if attended to, the rest could not fail of being observed. The argument by which, and the manner in which, he presses it, is as before:

as I have loved you; than which nothing can be more strong and forcible; see John 13:34.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is my commandment - The special law of Christianity, called hence “the new commandment.” See the notes at John 13:34.

As I have loved you - That is, with the same tender affection, willing to endure trials, to practice self-denials, and, if need be, to lay down your lives for each other, 1 John 3:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 15:12. That ye love one another — John 13:34; John 13:34. So deeply was thus commandment engraved on the heart of this evangelist that St. Jerome says, lib. iii. c. 6, Com. ad Galat., that in his extreme old age, when he used to be carried to the public assemblies of the believers, his constant saying was, Little children, love one another. His disciples, wearied at last with the constant repetition of the same words, asked him, Why he constantly said the same thing? "Because (said he) it is the commandment of the Lord, and the observation of it alone is sufficient." Quia praeceptum Domini est, et, si solum fiat, sufficit.