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John 14:15

"If you [really] love Me, you will keep and obey My commandments.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Duty;   Love;   Obedience;   Righteous;   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   World-System;   Thompson Chain Reference - Christ;   Commands;   Divine;   Future, the;   Heaven;   Heavenly;   Home;   Love;   Love-Hatred;   Words;   Words of Christ;   The Topic Concordance - Giving and Gifts;   Holy Spirit;   Jesus Christ;   Love;   Obedience;   Understanding;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Love to Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Holy spirit;   Law;   Love;   Obedience;   Resurrection;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Comfort;   Faith;   Follow, Follower;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   Love to God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Works, Good;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Revelation of John, the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Authority;   Lawgiver;   Love;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Children (Sons) of God;   God;   Holy Spirit;   John, Theology of;   Obedience;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Authority in Religion;   Brotherhood (2);   Character;   Coming Again;   Death of Christ;   Force;   Immortality (2);   John, Gospel of (Critical);   Keeping;   Love (2);   Manuscripts;   Quotations (2);   Self-Examination;   Vine, Allegory of the;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fruit;   Pentecost;   Samuel;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Commandment;   Johannine Theology, the;   Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Salvation;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for June 29;   Every Day Light - Devotion for March 9;   My Utmost for His Highest - Devotion for November 2;  

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
"If you love me, you'll ride for me. If you truly ride for me, you'll do like I've taught you.
Legacy Standard Bible
"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
Bible in Basic English
If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
Darby Translation
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
New King James Version
"If you love Me, keep [fn] My commandments.
Christian Standard Bible®
"If you love Me, you will keep My commands.
World English Bible
If you love me, keep my commandments.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter,
Weymouth's New Testament
"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
King James Version (1611)
If ye loue me, keepe my commandements.
Literal Translation
If you love Me, keep My commandments.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf ye loue me, kepe my commaundementes.
Mace New Testament (1729)
if ye love me, keep my commandments.
THE MESSAGE
"If you love me, show it by doing what I've told you. I will talk to the Father, and he'll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can't take him in because it doesn't have eyes to see him, doesn't know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!
American Standard Version
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
Revised Standard Version
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
If ye love me kepe my comaundementes
Update Bible Version
If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Webster's Bible Translation
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Young's Literal Translation
`If ye love me, my commands keep,
New Century Version
"If you love me, you will obey my commands.
New English Translation
"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
Contemporary English Version
Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will do as I command.
Complete Jewish Bible
"If you love me, you will keep my commands;
English Standard Version
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If ye loue me, keepe my comandements,
George Lamsa Translation
If you love me, then obey my commandments.
Hebrew Names Version
If you love me, keep my mitzvot.
International Standard Version
"If you love me, keepyou will keep">[fn] my commandments.John 14:21,23; 1 John 5:3;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
IF you love me, keep my commandments;
Murdock Translation
If ye love me, keep my commands.
New Living Translation
"If you love me, obey my commandments.
New Life Bible
"If you love Me, you will do what I say.
English Revised Version
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
Berean Standard Bible
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
New Revised Standard
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If ye be loving me, my commandments, ye will keep;
Douay-Rheims Bible
If you love me, keep my commandments.
King James Version
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Lexham English Bible
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If ye loue me, kepe my commaundementes,
Easy-to-Read Version
"If you love me, you will do what I command.
New American Standard Bible
"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
Good News Translation
"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If ye louen me, kepe ye my comaundementis.

Contextual Overview

15"If you [really] love Me, you will keep and obey My commandments.16"And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), to be with you forever— 17the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 14:21-24, John 8:42, John 15:10-14, John 21:15-17, Matthew 10:37, Matthew 25:34-40, 1 Corinthians 16:22, 2 Corinthians 5:14, 2 Corinthians 5:15, 2 Corinthians 8:8, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Galatians 5:6, Ephesians 3:16-18, Ephesians 6:24, Philippians 1:20-23, Philippians 3:7-11, 1 Peter 1:8, 1 John 2:3-5, 1 John 4:19, 1 John 4:20, 1 John 5:2, 1 John 5:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:6 - love me Leviticus 18:26 - keep Deuteronomy 4:40 - keep Deuteronomy 5:10 - love me Deuteronomy 7:11 - General Deuteronomy 26:16 - keep Joshua 22:5 - love Judges 16:15 - when thine 1 Kings 3:3 - walking 2 Kings 18:6 - kept Psalms 119:4 - General Proverbs 19:16 - keepeth the Matthew 7:24 - whosoever Luke 6:47 - doeth Luke 8:15 - keep John 12:26 - serve John 14:23 - If John 14:24 - that John 15:14 - my John 21:17 - Feed 2 Corinthians 13:14 - the communion 1 Thessalonians 1:3 - and labour 2 John 1:6 - this is love Revelation 22:14 - Blessed

Cross-References

Genesis 14:2
they [invaded the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, and] made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
Genesis 14:3
All of these [kings] joined together [as allies] in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Sea of Salt).
Deuteronomy 15:2
"This is the regulation for the release: every creditor shall forgive what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not require repayment from his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD'S release has been proclaimed.
1 Kings 15:18
Then Asa took all the silver and gold left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the palace of the king and handed them over to his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram (Syria), who lived in Damascus, saying,
Psalms 112:5
It is well with the man who is gracious and lends; He conducts his affairs with justice.
Acts 9:2
and he asked for letters [of authority] from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there belonging to the Way [believers, followers of Jesus the Messiah], men and women alike, he could arrest them and bring them bound [with chains] to Jerusalem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If ye love me,.... Not that Christ doubted of the love of his disciples to him; but he argues from it to their observance of his precepts, seeing ye do love me; as all do who are born again, who have had any spiritual sight of him, of his glory, suitableness, and fulness; who believe in him, and have received from him; who have had his love shed abroad in their hearts, having enjoyed communion with him, and know the relation he stands in to them; these love him above all others, and all of him, and that belong to him, unfeignedly, and in the sincerity of their souls, as did the disciples; and since they professed to love, and did love him, as they ought to do, he exhorts them, saying,

keep my commandments: Christ is Lord over his people, as he is the Creator and Redeemer of them, and as he is an head and husband to them, and as such he has a right to issue out his commands, and enjoin a regard unto them; and these are peculiarly "his", as distinct from, though not in opposition to, or to the exclusion of, his Father's commands; such as the new commandment of loving one another, and the ordinances of baptism, and the Lord's supper, which are to be observed and kept as Christ has ordered them, constantly, in faith, and with a view to his glory.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If ye love me - Do not show your love by grief at my departure merely; or by profession, but by obedience.

Keep my commandments - This is the only proper evidence of love to Jesus, for mere profession is no proof of love; but that love for him which leads us to do all his will, to love each other, to deny ourselves, to take up our cross, and to follow him through evil report and through good report, is true attachment. The evidence which we have that a child loves its parents is when that child is willing, without hesitation, gainsaying, or complaining, to do all that the parent requires him to do. So the disciples of Christ are required to show that they are attached to him supremely by yielding to all his requirements, and by patiently doing his will in the face of ridicule and opposition, 1 John 5:2-3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 14:15. If ye love me, keep my commandments. — Do not be afflicted at the thought of my being separated from you: the most solid proof ye can give of your attachment to and affection for me is to keep my commandments. This I shall receive as a greater proof of your affection than your tears.


 
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