John 15:14

Bible in Basic English

You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

King James Version (1611)
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoeuer I command you.

King James Version
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

English Standard Version
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

New American Standard Bible
"You are My friends if you do what I command you.

New Century Version
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Amplified Bible
"You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Legacy Standard Bible
You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Berean Standard Bible
You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Contemporary English Version
And you are my friends, if you obey me.

Complete Jewish Bible
You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

Darby Translation
Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.

Easy-to-Read Version
You are my friends if you do what I tell you to do.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye are my friendes, if ye doe whatsoeuer I commaund you.

George Lamsa Translation
You are my friends, if you do everything that I command you.

Good News Translation
And you are my friends if you do what I command you.

Lexham English Bible
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Literal Translation
You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

American Standard Version
Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.

Hebrew Names Version
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

International Standard Version
You are my friends if you do what I command you.Matthew 12:50; John 14:15,23;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
You are my friends, if you do all that I command you.

Murdock Translation
Ye are my friends, if ye do all that I command you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye are my frendes, yf ye do whatsoeuer I commaunde you.

English Revised Version
Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.

World English Bible
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. I no longer call you servants,

Weymouth's New Testament
You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye ben my freendis if ye doen tho thingis, that Y comaunde to you.

Update Bible Version
You are my friends, if you do the things which I command you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you.

New English Translation
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

New King James Version
You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

New Living Translation
You are my friends if you do what I command.

New Life Bible
You are My friends if you do what I tell you.

New Revised Standard
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye, are, friends of mine, if ye be doing that which, I, am commanding you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.

Revised Standard Version
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Ye are my fredes yf ye do whatsoever I commaunde you.

Young's Literal Translation
ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye are my frendes, yf ye do that I commaunde you.

Mace New Testament (1729)
you will be my friends, if you do what I have commanded you.

Simplified Cowboy Version
My friends are those who do the things I tell them to do.

Contextual Overview

⁹ Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love. ¹¹ I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete. ¹² This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you. ¹³ Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do. ¹⁵ No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me. ¹⁶ You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you. ¹⁷ So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

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, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

Genesis 15:2
And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.

Genesis 15:4
Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you.

Genesis 15:5
And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

Genesis 15:6
And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

Genesis 15:7
And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

Genesis 15:9
And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.

Genesis 15:11
And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away.

Genesis 15:14
But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.

Genesis 15:18
In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the 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.