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New Century Version

John 15:12

"This is my command: Love each other 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.
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.
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 I loved you as the Father loved me. Now remain in my love. 10 I have obeyed my Father's commands, and I remain in his love. In the same way, if you obey my commands, you will remain in my love. 11 I have told you these things so that you can have the same joy I have and so that your joy will be the fullest possible joy. 12 "This is my command: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 The greatest love a person can show is to die for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me; I chose you. And I gave you this work: to go and produce fruit, fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.

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
So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply, and while he was asleep, God removed one of the man's ribs. Then God closed up the man's skin at the place where he took the rib.
Genesis 15:3
Abram said, "Look, you have given me no son, so a slave born in my house will inherit everything I have."
Genesis 15:5
Then God led Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky. There are so many stars you cannot count them. Your descendants also will be too many to count."
Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord God , how can I be sure that I will own this land?"
Genesis 15:9
The Lord said to Abram, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old goat, a three-year-old male sheep, a dove, and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, "You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers and travel in a land they don't own. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for four hundred years.
Genesis 15:14
But I will punish the nation where they are slaves. Then your descendants will leave that land, taking great wealth with them.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul's head, and they left. No one saw them or knew about it or woke up, because the Lord had put them sound asleep.
Job 33:15
He speaks in a dream or a vision of the night when people are in a deep sleep, lying on their beds.
Acts 20:9
A young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window. As Paul continued talking, Eutychus was falling into a deep sleep. Finally, he went sound asleep and fell to the ground from the third floor. 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 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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