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Complete Jewish Bible

John 15:17

This is what I command you: keep loving each other!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Love;   Scofield Reference Index - Separation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abiding in Christ;   Fellowship-Estrangement;   Nearness to God;   Vine;   The Topic Concordance - Choosing/chosen;   Comfort;   Commandment;   Enemies;   Hate;   Holy Spirit;   Jesus Christ;   Love;   Persecution;   Sending and Those Sent;   Sin;   Truth;   Witness;   World;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Apostles, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Comforter;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Love;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Spirituality;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Union to Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Love;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Children (Sons) of God;   Christianity;   God;   Holy Spirit;   John, Theology of;   Vine, Vineyard;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Death of Christ;   Endurance;   Love (2);   Paradox;   Quotations (2);   Son of God;   Steward, Stewardship;   World ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fruit;   Pentecost;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 17;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“This is what I command you: Love one another.
King James Version (1611)
These things I commaund you, that ye loue one another.
King James Version
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
English Standard Version
These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
New American Standard Bible
"This I command you, that you love one another.
New Century Version
This is my command: Love each other.
Amplified Bible
"This [is what] I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This I command you, that you love one another.
Legacy Standard Bible
This I command you, that you love one another.
Berean Standard Bible
This is My command to you: Love one another.
Contemporary English Version
So I command you to love each other.
Darby Translation
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is my command: Love each other.
Geneva Bible (1587)
These things commaunde I you, that ye loue one another.
George Lamsa Translation
I command these things to you, so that you love one another.
Good News Translation
This, then, is what I command you: love one another.
Lexham English Bible
These things I command you: that you love one another.
Literal Translation
These things I command you, that you love one another.
American Standard Version
These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
Bible in Basic English
So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.
Hebrew Names Version
"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
International Standard Version
I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."John 15:12;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
These I command you, That you love one another.
Murdock Translation
These things I command you, that ye should love one another.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
This commaunde I you, that ye loue together.
English Revised Version
These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
World English Bible
"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
This I command you, that ye love one another.
Weymouth's New Testament
"Thus I command you to love one another.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
These thingis Y comaunde to you, that ye loue togidere.
Update Bible Version
These things I command you, that you may love one another.
Webster's Bible Translation
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
New English Translation
This I command you—to love one another.
New King James Version
These things I command you, that you love one another.
New Living Translation
This is my command: Love each other.
New Life Bible
"This is what I tell you to do: Love each other.
New Revised Standard
I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
These things, I command you, That ye be loving one another.
Douay-Rheims Bible
These things I command you, that you love one another.
Revised Standard Version
This I command you, to love one another.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
This comaunde I you that ye love to gedder.
Young's Literal Translation
`These things I command you, that ye love one another;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This I commaunde you, that ye loue one another.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Above all I enjoin you, to love one another.
THE MESSAGE
"But remember the root command: Love one another.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Don't forget what I've told you to do—love each other.

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

John 15:12, 1 Peter 2:17, 1 John 3:14-17

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 19:2 - delighted Proverbs 29:27 - General Mark 9:50 - have peace John 13:34 - That ye love Acts 7:26 - ye are Romans 12:10 - kindly 1 Corinthians 16:14 - General 1 Thessalonians 4:9 - for ye 1 Thessalonians 5:13 - and be Hebrews 13:1 - General 1 Peter 1:22 - unto 1 John 5:2 - General

Cross-References

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 15:3
You haven't given me a child," Avram continued, "so someone born in my house will be my heir."
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 —
Genesis 15:19
the territory of the Keni, the K'nizi, the Kadmoni,
Deuteronomy 4:20
No, you Adonai has taken and brought out of the smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of inheritance for him, as you are today.
Judges 6:21
Then the angel of Adonai reached out with the stick he was holding, touched the meat and matzot, and fire shot up out of the rock and burned up the meat and matzot. Then the angel of Adonai disappeared before his eyes.
Judges 13:20
as the flame went up toward the sky from the altar, the angel of Adonai went up in the flame from the altar. When Manoach and his wife saw it, they fell to the ground on their faces.
2 Samuel 22:9
Smoke arose in his nostrils; and from his mouth, devouring fire, with coals blazing from it.
1 Chronicles 21:26
Then David built an altar to Adonai there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called on Adonai , who answered him from heaven by fire on the altar for burnt offerings.
Isaiah 62:1
For Tziyon's sake I will not be silent, for Yerushalayim's sake I will not rest, until her vindication shines out brightly and her salvation like a blazing torch.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These things I command you,.... The doctrines which Christ spake, as one having authority, concerning the vine and branches; his love to his disciples, in laying down his life for them, and in accounting and using them as friends, and not servants; in choosing, ordaining, and sending them forth, for the ends above mentioned; these were delivered by him with this view, to promote brotherly love among them: that ye love one another; this lay much upon his heart, he often mentions it; this is the third time it is expressed by him, in these his last discourses; and indeed, since he had declared such strong love and affection for them, it was but right and proper they should love one another; nor does anything more tend to increase mutual love among the saints, than the consideration of their common interest in the unchangeable love of their Lord.


 
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