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John 15:12
This is what I command you: Love each other as I have loved you.
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Christian Standard Bible®
“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved
“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.
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.
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.
"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.
"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.
"This is my command: Love each other as I have loved you.
Amplified Bible
"This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you.
"This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just 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.
"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.
"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.
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.
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.
"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.
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
This is my commandement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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]
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
"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.
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.
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.
"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.
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;
`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.
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.
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.
Take care of others like I am taking care of you. That is my command.
Contextual Overview
9 "I have loved you as the Father has loved me. Now continue in my love. 10 I have obeyed my Father's commands, and he continues to love me. In the same way, if you obey my commands, I will continue to love you. 11 I have told you these things so that you can have the true happiness that I have. I want you to be completely happy. 12 This is what I command you: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 The greatest love people can show is to die for their friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I tell you to do. 15 I no longer call you servants, because servants don't know what their master is doing. But now I call you friends, because I have told you everything that my Father told me. 16 "You did not choose me. I chose you. And I gave you this work: to go and produce fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
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 the man to sleep very deeply. While he was asleep, God took one of the ribs from the man's body. Then he closed the man's skin where the rib had been.
So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply. While he was asleep, God took one of the ribs from the man's body. Then he closed the man's skin where the rib had been.
Genesis 15:3
Abram said, "You have given me no son, so a slave born in my house will get everything I have."
Abram said, "You have given me no son, so a slave born in my house will get everything I have."
Genesis 15:5
Then God led Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky. See the many stars. There are so many you cannot count them. Your family will be like that."
Then God led Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky. See the many stars. There are so many you cannot count them. Your family will be like that."
Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord God , how can I be sure that I will get this land?"
But Abram said, "Lord God , how can I be sure that I will get this land?"
Genesis 15:9
God said to Abram, "We will make an agreement. Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove, and a young pigeon."
God said to Abram, "We will make an agreement. Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove, and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, "You should know this: Your descendants will live in a country that is not their own. They will be strangers there. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for 400 years.
Then the Lord said to Abram, "You should know this: Your descendants will live in a country that is not their own. They will be strangers there. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for 400 years.
Genesis 15:14
But then I will punish the nation that made them slaves. Your people will leave that land, and they will take many good things with them.
But then I will punish the nation that made them slaves. Your people will leave that land, and they will take many good things with them.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul's head, and then David and Abishai left Saul's camp. No one knew what had happened. No one saw it. No one even woke up. Saul and all of his soldiers slept because the Lord had put them into a deep sleep.
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul's head, and then David and Abishai left Saul's camp. No one knew what had happened. No one saw it. No one even woke up. Saul and all of his soldiers slept because the Lord had put them into a deep sleep.
Job 33:15
He may speak in a dream, or in a vision at night, when people are in a deep sleep lying in their beds.
He may speak in a dream, or in a vision at night, when people are in a deep sleep lying in their beds.
Acts 20:9
There was a young man named Eutychus sitting in the window. Paul continued talking, and Eutychus became very, very sleepy. Finally, he went to sleep and fell out of the window. He fell to the ground from the third floor. When the people went down and lifted him up, he was dead.
There was a young man named Eutychus sitting in the window. Paul continued talking, and Eutychus became very, very sleepy. Finally, he went to sleep and fell out of the window. He fell to the ground from the third floor. When the people went down and lifted him up, he was 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 âthe new commandment.â 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.
