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Contemporary English Version

John 14:15

Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will do as I command.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
"If you love me, you will do what I command.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
If ye love me kepe my comaundementes
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]
New American Standard Bible
"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
New Century Version
"If you love me, you will obey my commands.
Update Bible Version
If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Webster's Bible Translation
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
English Standard Version
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If ye louen me, kepe ye my comaundementis.
English Revised Version
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
Berean 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.
American Standard Version
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
Bible in Basic English
If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
Complete Jewish Bible
"If you love me, you will keep my commands;
Darby Translation
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Etheridge Translation
IF you love me, keep my commandments;
Murdock Translation
If ye love me, keep my commands.
King James Version (1611)
If ye loue me, keepe my commandements.
New Living Translation
"If you love me, obey my commandments.
New Life Bible
"If you love Me, you will do what I say.
New Revised Standard
"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.
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.
Revised Standard Version
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If ye loue me, kepe my commaundementes,
Good News Translation
"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
Christian Standard Bible®
“If you love me, you will keep
King James Version
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Lexham English Bible
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Literal Translation
If you love Me, keep My commandments.
Young's Literal Translation
`If ye love me, my commands keep,
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!
New English Translation
"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
New King James Version
"If you love Me, keep [fn] My commandments.
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
Legacy Standard Bible
"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Contextual Overview

15 Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will do as I command. 16 Then I will ask the Father to send you the Holy Spirit who will help you and always be with you. 17 The Spirit will show you what is true. The people of this world cannot accept the Spirit, because they don't see or know him. But you know the Spirit, who is with you and will keep on living 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
attacked King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, also known as the city of Zoar.
Genesis 14:3
King Chedorlaomer and his allies had ruled these last five kings for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year the kings rebelled and came together in Siddim Valley, which is now covered by the southern part of the Dead Sea.
1 Kings 15:18
When Asa heard about this, he took the silver and gold from his palace and from the Lord 's temple. He gave it to some of his officials and sent them to Damascus with this message for King Benhadad of Syria:
Psalms 112:5
Life will go well for those who freely lend and are honest in business.
Acts 9:2
and asked for letters to the Jewish leaders in Damascus. He did this because he wanted to arrest and take to Jerusalem any man or woman who had accepted the Lord's Way.

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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