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Lexham English Bible

John 15:17

These things I command you: that 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.
Good News Translation
This, then, is what I command 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 "Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have spoken these things to you in order that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made complete. 12 This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. 17 These things I command you: that 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
Then Abram said, "O Yahweh, my Lord, what will you give me? I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus."
Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, "Look, you have not given me a descendant, and here, a member of my household is my heir."
Genesis 15:18
On that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram saying, "To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates river,
Genesis 15:19
the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
Deuteronomy 4:20
But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out from the furnace of iron, from Egypt, to be a people of inheritance to him, as it is this day.
Judges 6:21
Then the angel of Yahweh reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and he touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of Yahweh went from his sight.
Judges 13:20
And when the flame went up toward the heaven from the altar, the angel of Yahweh went up in the flame of the altar to heaven while Manoah and his wife were watching. And they fell on their faces to the ground.
2 Samuel 22:9
Smoke went up from his nostrils and fire from his mouth. Burning coals devoured, they burned from him.
1 Chronicles 21:26
Then David built an altar there to Yahweh, and he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and he called to Yahweh. And he answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.
Isaiah 62:1
For the sake of Zion I will not be silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not maintain a quiet attitude, until her righteousness goes out like the bright light, and her salvation burns like a torch.

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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