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Good News Translation

John 15:17

This, then, is what I command you: love one another.

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
This is what I command you: keep loving 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.
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 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 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
But Abram answered, "Sovereign Lord , what good will your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus.
Genesis 15:3
You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property."
Genesis 15:18
Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, "I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River,
Genesis 15:19
including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
Deuteronomy 4:20
But you are the people he rescued from Egypt, that blazing furnace. He brought you out to make you his own people, as you are today.
Judges 6:21
Then the Lord 's angel reached out and touched the meat and the bread with the end of the stick he was holding. Fire came out of the rock and burned up the meat and the bread. Then the angel disappeared.
Judges 13:20
While the flames were going up from the altar, Manoah and his wife saw the Lord 's angel go up toward heaven in the flames. Manoah realized then that the man had been the Lord 's angel, and he and his wife threw themselves face downward on the ground. They never saw the angel again.
2 Samuel 22:9
Smoke poured out of his nostrils, a consuming flame and burning coals from his mouth.
1 Chronicles 21:26
He built an altar to the Lord there and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He prayed, and the Lord answered him by sending fire from heaven to burn the sacrifices on the altar.
Isaiah 62:1
I will speak out to encourage Jerusalem; I will not be silent until she is saved, And her victory shines like a torch in the night.

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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