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Complete Jewish Bible

John 15:14

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

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

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
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 "Just as my Father has loved me, I too have loved you; so stay in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will stay in my love — just as I have kept my Father's commands and stay in his love. 11 I have said this to you so that my joy may be in you, and your joy be complete. 12 "This is my command: that you keep on loving each other just as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than a person who lays down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a slave doesn't know what his master is about; but I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, I chose you; and I have commissioned you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that whatever you ask from the Father in my name he may give you. 17 This is what I command you: keep loving 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
Some time later the word of Adonai came to Avram in a vision: "Don't be afraid, Avram. I am your protector; your reward will be very great."
Genesis 15:2
Avram replied, " Adonai , God, what good will your gifts be to me if I continue childless; and Eli‘ezer from Dammesek inherits my possessions?
Genesis 15:4
But the word of Adonai came to him: "This man will not be your heir. No, your heir will be a child from your own body."
Genesis 15:5
Then he brought him outside and said, "Look up at the sky, and count the stars — if you can count them! Your descendants will be that many!"
Genesis 15:6
He believed in Adonai , and he credited it to him as righteousness.
Genesis 15:7
(vi) Then he said to him, "I am Adonai , who brought you out from Ur-Kasdim to give you this land as your possession."
Genesis 15:9
He answered him, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:11
Birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Avram drove them away.
Genesis 15:14
But I will also judge that nation, the one that makes them slaves. Afterwards, they will leave with many possessions.
Genesis 15:18
That day Adonai made a covenant with Avram: "I have given this land to your descendants — from the Vadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River —

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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