John 15:9

Bishop's Bible

As the father hath loued me, euen so haue I loued you: Continue ye in my loue.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.

King James Version (1611)
As the Father hath loued me, so haue I loued you: continue ye in my loue.

King James Version
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

English Standard Version
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

New American Standard Bible
"Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love.

New Century Version
I loved you as the Father loved me. Now remain in my love.

Amplified Bible
"I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love [and do not doubt My love for you].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.

Legacy Standard Bible
Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.

Berean Standard Bible
As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.

Contemporary English Version
I have loved you, just as my Father has loved me. So remain faithful to my love for you.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Just as my Father has loved me, I too have loved you; so stay in my love.

Darby Translation
As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

Easy-to-Read Version
"I have loved you as the Father has loved me. Now continue in my love.

Geneva Bible (1587)
As the father hath loued me, so haue I loued you: continue in that my loue.

George Lamsa Translation
Just as my Father has loved me, I also have loved you; remain in my love.

Good News Translation
I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love.

Lexham English Bible
"Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

Literal Translation
As the Father loved Me, I also loved you; continue in My love.

American Standard Version
Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

Bible in Basic English
Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

Hebrew Names Version
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

International Standard Version
Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So abide in my love.

Etheridge Translation
As my Father hath loved me, so I have loved you: continue in the love of me.

Murdock Translation
As my Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in the love of me.

English Revised Version
Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

World English Bible
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you.

Weymouth's New Testament
As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As my fadir louede me, Y haue loued you; dwelle ye in my loue.

Update Bible Version
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

Webster's Bible Translation
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

New English Translation
"Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

New King James Version
"As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

New Living Translation
"I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.

New Life Bible
I have loved you just as My Father has loved Me. Stay in My love.

New Revised Standard
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Just as the Father loved me, I also, loved you: Abide ye in my love.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love.

Revised Standard Version
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
As the father hath loved me eve so have I leved you. Continue in my love.

Young's Literal Translation
According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Like as my father hath loued me, eue so haue I loued you. Cotynue ye i my loue.

Mace New Testament (1729)
as the father has loved me, and I have loved you: so do you persevere in your love to me.

THE MESSAGE
"I've loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love. If you keep my commands, you'll remain intimately at home in my love. That's what I've done—kept my Father's commands and made myself at home in his love.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"I've loved you the way my Daddy loves me. My love is like a campfire on a cold night. Stay close and stay safe.

Contextual Overview

⁹ As the father hath loued me, euen so haue I loued you: Continue ye in my loue. ¹⁰ Yf ye kepe my commaundementes, ye shall abyde in my loue, euen as I haue kept my fathers commaundementes, and abyde in his loue. ¹¹ These thynges haue I spoken vnto you, that my ioy might remayne in you, and that your ioy myght be full. ¹² This is my commaundement, that ye loue together, as I haue loued you. ¹³ Greater loue hath no man, then this: yt a man bestowe his life for his frendes. ¹⁴ Ye are my frendes, yf ye do whatsoeuer I commaunde you. ¹⁵ Hencefoorth call I you not seruautes: for the seruaunt knoweth not what his Lorde doeth. But you haue I called frendes, for all thynges that I haue hearde of my father, haue I made knowen to you. ¹⁶ Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordayned you, to go, and bryng foorth fruite, and that your fruite shoulde remayne, that whatsoeuer ye aske of the father in my name, he may geue it you. ¹⁷ This commaunde I you, that ye loue together.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Father: John 15:13, John 17:23, John 17:26, Ephesians 3:18, Revelation 1:5

continue: John 15:11, 1 John 2:28, Jude 1:20

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:4 - That the Lord 1 Kings 13:9 - For Psalms 36:10 - continue Psalms 37:28 - forsaketh Psalms 119:167 - soul Song of Solomon 2:4 - his banner Daniel 10:19 - O man Matthew 17:5 - in whom Luke 6:47 - doeth John 3:35 - Father John 10:17 - General John 11:5 - loved John 13:1 - having John 14:21 - that loveth John 14:31 - that the Acts 14:22 - exhorting Galatians 4:29 - after the Spirit Colossians 1:23 - ye continue 2 Thessalonians 2:16 - which James 1:25 - and 1 John 2:24 - ye also 1 John 5:18 - keepeth

Cross-References

Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifting vp his eyes, looked: and beholde, behynde [hym] there was a Ramme caught by the hornes in a thicket: and Abraham went & tooke the Ramme, and offered hym vp for a burnt offering in the steade of his sonne.

Leviticus 1:3
If his sacrifice be a burnt offeryng of beefes, let hym offer a male without blemishe, and bryng hym of his owne voluntarie wyll, vnto the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lorde.

Leviticus 1:10
And if his sacrifice be of flockes, namely of the sheepe or goates, let hym bryng a male without blemishe for a burnt offeryng:

Leviticus 1:14
If the burnt offeryng for the sacrifice of the Lorde be of fowles, he shall bring his sacrifice of turtle doues, or of the young pigeons.

Leviticus 3:1
And if his sacrifice be a peace offeryng, and he take it from among the droues, whether it be a male or female, he shall bryng such as is without blemishe before the Lorde.

Leviticus 3:6
If he bryng a peace offeryng vnto the Lorde from of the flocke, let hym offer male or female, but without blemishe.

Leviticus 9:2
And he sayd vnto Aaro: Take thee a young Calfe for a sin offering, and a Ramme for a burnt offering, both without blemishe, and bryng them before the Lorde.

Leviticus 9:4
Also a Bullocke & a Ramme for peace offeringes, to offer before the Lord, and a meate offering mingled with oyle: for to day the Lord will appeare vnto you.

Leviticus 12:8
But and yf she be not able to bryng a lambe, she shall bryng two turtles or two young pigeons, the one for ye burnt offering, & the other for a sinne offering: And the priest shall make an attonemet for her, and she shalbe cleane.

Leviticus 14:22
And two turtle doues, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get: wherof the one shalbe for a sinne offeryng, and the other for a burnt offeryng.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As the Father hath loved me,.... As his own Son, and as Mediator, from everlasting; and in time, in his state of humiliation, throughout the course of his obedience, and under all his sufferings; which he testified more than once by a voice from heaven; which he showed by concealing nothing from him as Mediator, by giving all things into his hands, by showing him all that he himself did, by appointing him the Saviour of the body, and making him the head of the church, by exalting him at his right hand, and ordaining him to be judge of quick and dead.

So have I loved you: Christ loves his as his spouse and bride, as his dear children, as members of his body, as branches in him the vine, as believers in him, and followers of him; which he has shown by espousing both their persons and cause, by assuming their nature, by suffering and dying in their room and stead, and making all suitable provision for them, both for time and eternity. And there is a likeness between the Father's love to him, and his love to his disciples and followers: as his Father loved him from everlasting, so did he love them; as his Father loved him with a love of complacency and delight, so did he, and so does he love them; and as his Father loved him with a special and peculiar affection, with an unchangeable, invariable, constant love, which will last for ever, in like manner does Christ love his people; and with this he enforces the following exhortation.

Continue ye in my love: meaning either in his love to them, which, as he always continues in it without any variableness or shadow of turning, so he would have them continue in believing their interest in it, prizing and valuing it, in imitating and remembering it; or else in their love to him, to his person, to his people, to his Gospel, to his ordinances, ways, and worship, which he knew was liable to wax cold, though it could not be lost.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As the Father hath loved me - The love of the Father toward his only-begotten Son is the highest affection of which we can conceive. Compare Matthew 3:17; Matthew 17:5. It is the love of God toward his coequal Son. who is like him in all things, who always pleased him, and who was willing to endure the greatest sacrifices and toils to accomplish his purpose of mercy. Yet this love is adduced to illustrate the tender affection which the Lord Jesus has for all his friends.

So have I loved you - Not to the same degree, for this was impossible, but with the same kind of love - deep, tender. unchanging; love prompting to self-denials, toils, and sacrifices to secure their welfare.

Continue ye - The reason which he gives for their doing this is the strength of the love which he had shown for them. His love was so great for them that he was about to lay down his life. This constitutes a strong reason why we should continue in his love:

1. Because the love which he shows for us is unchanging.
2. It is the love of our best friend - love whose strength was expressed by toils, and groans, and blood.
3. As he is unchanging in the character and strength of his affection, so should we be. Thus only can we properly express our gratitude; thus only show that we are his true friends.
4. Our happiness here and forever depends altogether on our continuing in the love of Christ. We have no source of permanent joy but in that love.

In my love - In love to me. Thus it is expressed in the Greek in the next verse. The connection also demands that we understand it of our love to him, and not of his love to us. The latter cannot be the subject of a command; the former may. See also Luk 11:42; 1 John 2:5; Jude 1:21.