Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “If you love me, keep my commands. New Living Translation “If you love me, obey my commandments. English Standard Version “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. Berean Standard Bible If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. Berean Literal Bible If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. King James Bible If ye love me, keep my commandments. New King James Version “If you love Me, keep My commandments. New American Standard Bible “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. NASB 1995 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. NASB 1977 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. Legacy Standard Bible “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. Amplified Bible “If you [really] love Me, you will keep and obey My commandments. Christian Standard Bible “If you love me, you will keep my commands. Holman Christian Standard Bible “If you love Me, you will keep My commands. American Standard Version If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. Aramaic Bible in Plain English “If you love me, keep my commandments.” Contemporary English Version Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will do as I command. Douay-Rheims Bible If you love me, keep my commandments. English Revised Version If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. GOD'S WORD® Translation "If you love me, you will obey my commandments. Good News Translation "If you love me, you will obey my commandments. International Standard Version "If you love me, keep my commandments. Literal Standard Version If you love Me, keep My commands, Majority Standard Bible If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. New American Bible “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. NET Bible "If you love me, you will obey my commandments. New Revised Standard Version “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. New Heart English Bible If you love me, you will keep my commandments. Webster's Bible Translation If ye love me, keep my commandments. Weymouth New Testament "If you love me, you will obey my commandments. World English Bible If you love me, keep my commandments. Young's Literal Translation 'If ye love me, my commands keep, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit14If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it. 15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—… Cross References John 14:21 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him." John 14:23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. John 15:10 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. 1 John 2:3 By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome, 2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love. Treasury of Scripture If you love me, keep my commandments. John 14:21-24 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him… John 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. John 15:10-14 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… Jump to Previous Command Commandments Commands Love ObeyJump to Next Command Commandments Commands Love ObeyJohn 14 1. Jesus comforts his disciples with the hope of heaven;5. professes himself the way, the truth, and the life, and one with the Father; 13. assures their prayers to be effectual; 15. requires obedience; 16. promises the Comforter; 27. and leaves his peace with them. (15) If ye love me, keep my commandments.--Comp. Notes on John 14:17; John 13:34; John 15:10. The connection here is through the condition "in My name," which includes willing obedience to His commands. The word "My" is emphatic--"The commandments which ye have received from Me." Those of this last discourse are perhaps prominent in the thought.Verse 15. - If ye love me, keep my commandments. This great saying is enlarged on in the subsequent section - the relation of love to obedience, obedience producing love, and love suggesting obedience and supplying it with motive. Τὰς ἐντολὰς τὰς ἐμάς, "the commandments which are peculiarly mine" (see Westcott on John 15:9), "as either adopted and reuttered by me, or as originating in my new relation to you." "Guard them as a sacred deposit, obey them as the only reasonable response you can make to authoritative command." It is somewhat startling to find the great promise that follows conditioned by loving obedience, seeing that love and obedience in any sinful man, love to Christ itself, are elsewhere made the work of the Holy Spirit. But we here come across that which often perplexes the student, viz. the contrast between the general idea of the constant and continuous work of grace in human hearts, and the special manifestation in personal glory and Divine activity of the Holy Ghost on Pentecost. Parallel Commentaries ... Greek IfἘὰν (Ean) Conjunction Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc. you love ἀγαπᾶτέ (agapate) Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. Me, με (me) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. you will keep τηρήσετε (tērēsete) Verb - Future Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 5083: From teros; to guard, i.e. To note; by implication, to detain; by extension, to withhold; by extension, to withhold. My ἐμὰς (emas) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Feminine 1st Person Plural Strong's 1699: My, mine. From the oblique cases of ego; my. commandments. ἐντολὰς (entolas) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Strong's 1785: An ordinance, injunction, command, law. From entellomai; injunction, i.e. An authoritative prescription. Links John 14:15 NIVJohn 14:15 NLT John 14:15 ESV John 14:15 NASB John 14:15 KJV John 14:15 BibleApps.com John 14:15 Biblia Paralela John 14:15 Chinese Bible John 14:15 French Bible John 14:15 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: John 14:15 If you love me keep my commandments (Jhn Jo Jn) |
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