John 15:14

Amplified Bible

"You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
My friends are those who do the things I tell them to do.

Legacy Standard Bible
You are My friends if you do what I command you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Bible in Basic English
You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

Darby Translation
Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.

New King James Version
You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

Christian Standard Bible®
You are My friends if you do what I command you.

World English Bible
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. I no longer call you servants,

Weymouth's New Testament
You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

King James Version (1611)
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoeuer I command you.

Literal Translation
You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye are my frendes, yf ye do that I commaunde you.

Mace New Testament (1729)
you will be my friends, if you do what I have commanded you.

American Standard Version
Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.

Revised Standard Version
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Ye are my fredes yf ye do whatsoever I commaunde you.

Update Bible Version
You are my friends, if you do the things which I command you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you.

Young's Literal Translation
ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

New Century Version
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

New English Translation
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Contemporary English Version
And you are my friends, if you obey me.

Complete Jewish Bible
You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

English Standard Version
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye are my friendes, if ye doe whatsoeuer I commaund you.

George Lamsa Translation
You are my friends, if you do everything that I command you.

Hebrew Names Version
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

International Standard Version
You are my friends if you do what I command you.Matthew 12:50; John 14:15,23;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
You are my friends, if you do all that I command you.

Murdock Translation
Ye are my friends, if ye do all that I command you.

New Living Translation
You are my friends if you do what I command.

New Life Bible
You are My friends if you do what I tell you.

English Revised Version
Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.

Berean Standard Bible
You are My friends if you do what I command you.

New Revised Standard
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye, are, friends of mine, if ye be doing that which, I, am commanding you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.

King James Version
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Lexham English Bible
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye are my frendes, yf ye do whatsoeuer I commaunde you.

Easy-to-Read Version
You are my friends if you do what I tell you to do.

New American Standard Bible
"You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Good News Translation
And you are my friends if you do what I command you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye ben my freendis if ye doen tho thingis, that Y comaunde to you.

Contextual Overview

⁹"I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love [and do not doubt My love for you]. ¹⁰"If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love. ¹¹"I have told you these things so that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing. ¹²"This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³"No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends. ¹⁴"You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you.¹⁵"I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you [My] friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father. ¹⁶"You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed and placed and purposefully planted you, so that you would go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit will remain and be lasting, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name [as My representative] He may give to you. ¹⁷"This [is what] I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my: John 14:15, John 14:28, 2 Chronicles 20:7, Song of Solomon 5:1, Isaiah 41:8, Matthew 12:50, Luke 12:4, James 2:23

if: John 2:5, John 13:17, John 14:21, 1 John 5:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:22 - General Exodus 7:6 - General Exodus 12:50 - as the Lord Exodus 17:10 - Joshua Exodus 33:11 - his friend Leviticus 18:4 - General Leviticus 18:26 - keep Numbers 9:5 - according Deuteronomy 4:1 - unto the statutes Deuteronomy 5:10 - love me Deuteronomy 5:29 - keep all Deuteronomy 11:32 - General Deuteronomy 12:28 - General Deuteronomy 27:1 - Keep all Deuteronomy 28:1 - to do all Judges 6:27 - and did Judges 13:14 - all that I Ruth 3:6 - and did 1 Samuel 9:27 - Bid the servant 2 Samuel 15:15 - Behold 2 Samuel 22:23 - For all 1 Kings 4:5 - the king's 1 Kings 13:9 - For 1 Kings 17:5 - did according 2 Kings 18:6 - kept 1 Chronicles 14:16 - did as God 2 Chronicles 6:16 - keep Nehemiah 10:29 - to observe Psalms 106:3 - Blessed Psalms 119:6 - I have Psalms 119:48 - unto thy Proverbs 7:2 - Keep Proverbs 17:17 - General Proverbs 18:24 - there Song of Solomon 1:9 - O my Jeremiah 13:2 - according Jeremiah 18:3 - I went Jeremiah 32:23 - they have Ezekiel 12:7 - I did so Ezekiel 18:11 - that Matthew 1:24 - did Matthew 7:24 - whosoever Matthew 11:1 - commanding Matthew 21:6 - and did Matthew 26:19 - the disciples Mark 14:13 - Go Luke 5:5 - nevertheless Luke 8:21 - My mother Luke 15:6 - his 1 Corinthians 7:19 - but 2 Corinthians 5:16 - know we no Philippians 4:9 - do 1 John 2:3 - if we 2 John 1:6 - this is love

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; Your reward [for obedience] shall be very great."

Genesis 15:2
Abram said, "Lord GOD, what reward will You give me, since I am [leaving this world] childless, and he who will be the owner and heir of my house is this [servant] Eliezer from Damascus?"

Genesis 15:4
Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man [Eliezer] will not be your heir but he who shall come from your own body shall be your heir."

Genesis 15:5
And the LORD brought Abram outside [his tent into the night] and said, "Look now toward the heavens and count the stars—if you are able to count them." Then He said to him, "So [numerous] shall your descendants be."

Genesis 15:6
Then Abram believed in (affirmed, trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the LORD; and He counted (credited) it to him as righteousness (doing right in regard to God and man).

Genesis 15:7
And He said to him, "I am the [same] LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land as an inheritance."

Genesis 15:9
So God said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

Genesis 15:11
The birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

Genesis 15:14
"But on that nation whom your descendants will serve I will bring judgment, and afterward they will come out [of that land] with great possessions.

Genesis 15:18
On the same day the LORD made a covenant (promise, pledge) with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates—

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye are my friends,.... This is an application of the foregoing passage, and more, clearly explains it. The character of "friends", is applied to the disciples of Christ; and belongs, not only to his apostles, but to all that love him, believe in him, and obey him; to whom he has showed himself friendly, by laying down his life for them: for this clearly shows, that Christ had respect in the former words, to his own laying down his life for his people, in consequence of his great love to them; whereby he has made them friends, and who appear to be so by their cheerful obedience to him:

if ye do whatsoever I command you; not that their doing of the commandments of Christ interested them in his favour; or made them his friends; or was the reason and motive of his laying down his life for them, and showing himself in such a friendly manner to them: but the sense is, that by observing his commands from a principle of love, they would make it appear that they were his friends, being influenced by his grace, and constrained by a sense of his love in dying for them, to act such a part.