Lectionary Calendar
Monday, September 23rd, 2024
the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

Amplified Bible

John 15:17

"This [is what] I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for 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

Simplified Cowboy Version
Don't forget what I've told you to do—love each other.
Legacy Standard Bible
This I command you, that you love one another.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This I command you, that you love one another.
Bible in Basic English
So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.
Darby Translation
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
New King James Version
These things I command you, that you love one another.
Christian Standard Bible®
This is what I command you: 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.
King James Version (1611)
These things I commaund you, that ye loue one another.
Literal Translation
These things I command you, that you 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.
American Standard Version
These things I command you, that ye may 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.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
`These things I command you, that ye love one another;
New Century Version
This is my command: Love each other.
New English Translation
This I command you—to 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!
English Standard Version
These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
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.
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.
New Living Translation
This is my command: Love each other.
New Life Bible
"This is what I tell you to do: Love each other.
English Revised Version
These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
Berean Standard Bible
This is My command to you: Love one another.
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.
King James Version
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Lexham English Bible
These things I command you: that you love one another.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
This commaunde I you, that ye loue together.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is my command: Love each other.
New American Standard Bible
"This I command you, that you love one another.
Good News Translation
This, then, is what I command you: love one another.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
These thingis Y comaunde to you, that ye loue togidere.

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

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
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 15:3
And Abram continued, "Since You have given no child to me, one (a servant) born in my house is my heir."
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—
Genesis 15:19
[the land of] the Kenites and the Kenizzites and the Kadmonites
Deuteronomy 4:20
"But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron [smelting] furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as [you are] this day.
Judges 6:21
Then the Angel of the LORD put out the end of the staff that was in His hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the Angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
Judges 13:20
For when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the Angel of the LORD ascended in the altar flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this they fell on their faces to the ground.
2 Samuel 22:9
"Smoke went up out of His nostrils, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it.
1 Chronicles 21:26
Then David built an altar to the LORD there and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings. And he called on the LORD, and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
Isaiah 62:1
For Zion's sake I (Isaiah) will not be silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I will not keep quiet, Until her righteousness and vindication go forth as brightness, And her salvation goes forth like a burning 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.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile