John 15:12

Good News Translation

My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“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.

King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
"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.

Amplified Bible
"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.

Legacy Standard Bible
"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.

Contemporary English Version
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.

Darby Translation
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Easy-to-Read Version
This is what I command you: Love each other as I have loved you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
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.

Lexham English Bible
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Hebrew Names Version
"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]

Etheridge Translation
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.

World English Bible
"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.

Weymouth's New Testament
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.

Update Bible Version
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.

New English Translation
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.

New Living Translation
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.

New Revised Standard
"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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
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;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Take care of others like I am taking care of you. That is my command.

Contextual Overview

⁹ I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ "I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you. ¹³ The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them. ¹⁴ And you are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father. ¹⁶ You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name. ¹⁷ This, then, is what I command you: love one another.

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
Then the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the flesh.

Genesis 15:3
You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property."

Genesis 15:5
The Lord took him outside and said, "Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that."

Genesis 15:8
But Abram asked, "Sovereign Lord , how can I know that it will be mine?"

Genesis 15:9
He answered, "Bring me a cow, a goat, and a ram, each of them three years old, and a dove and a pigeon."

Genesis 15:13
The Lord said to him, "Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.

Genesis 15:14
But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and when they leave that foreign land, they will take great wealth with them.

1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the water jar from right beside Saul's head, and he and Abishai left. No one saw it or knew what had happened or even woke up—they were all sound asleep, because the Lord had sent a heavy sleep on them all.

Job 33:15
At night when people are asleep, God speaks in dreams and visions.

Acts 20:9
A young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window, and as Paul kept on talking, Eutychus got sleepier and sleepier, until he finally went sound asleep and fell from the third story to the ground. When they picked 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 “the new commandment.” 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.