John 15:17

International Standard Version

I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."John 15:12;">[xr]

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.

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.

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 the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.John 14:15,21, 23;">[xr] ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.John 16:24; 17:13; 1 John 1:4;">[xr] ¹² "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] ¹³ No one showshas">[fn] greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.John 10:11,15; Romans 5:7-8; Ephesians 5:2; 1 John 3:16;">[xr] ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you.Matthew 12:50; John 14:15,23;">[xr] ¹⁵ I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.Genesis 18:17; John 17:26; Acts 20:27;">[xr] ¹⁶ "You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last,produce fruit, and your fruit is to last">[fn] so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:15; John 1:7; 6:70; 13:18; 14:13; Colossians 1:6; 1 John 4:10,19;">[xr] ¹⁷ I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."John 15:12;">[xr]

Bible Verse Review
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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

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.