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King James Version

John 15:12

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Fellowship;   Fraternity;   Jesus, the Christ;   Love;   Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abiding in Christ;   Brethren;   Brotherly Love;   Duty;   Fellowship-Estrangement;   Love;   Love-Hatred;   Nearness to God;   Social Duties;   Vine;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Choosing/chosen;   Comfort;   Commandment;   Enemies;   Friendship;   Hate;   Holy Spirit;   Jesus Christ;   Love;   Obedience;   Ordination;   Persecution;   Prayer;   Sacrifice;   Sending and Those Sent;   Servants;   Sin;   Truth;   Witness;   World;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Conduct, Christian;   Love of Christ, the;   Love to Man;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Comforter;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Love;   Peter;   Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Faith;   Love;   Spirituality;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Union to Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Gospel of;   Lawgiver;   Love;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brotherly Love;   Children (Sons) of God;   Christianity;   God;   Holy Spirit;   John, Theology of;   Joy;   Vine, Vineyard;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Communion (2);   Eternal Life (2);   Ideal;   Ideas (Leading);   Keeping;   Kindness (2);   Love (2);   Mercy;   New Commandment;   Oneness;   Paradox;   Power;   Quotations (2);   Redemption (2);   Regeneration;   Righteous, Righteousness;   Socialism;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fruit;   Pentecost;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Inspiration;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Commandment;   Love;   Salvation;   Ten Commandments, the;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 22;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 17;  

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.
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.
Good News Translation
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.
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 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 17 These things I command you, that ye 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
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Genesis 15:8
And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
Genesis 15:9
And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
Genesis 15:13
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Genesis 15:14
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.
Job 33:15
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
Acts 20:9
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up 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 anotherJohn 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.


 
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