John 15:14

Contemporary English Version

And you are my friends, if you obey me.

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

English Standard Version
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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

New Revised Standard
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.

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.

Revised Standard Version
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.

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

Christian Standard Bible®
You are my friends if you do what 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.

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

Young's Literal Translation
ye are my friends, if ye may 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁹ I have loved you, just as my Father has loved me. So remain faithful to my love for you. ¹⁰ If you obey me, I will keep loving you, just as my Father keeps loving me, because I have obeyed him. ¹¹ I have told you this to make you as completely happy as I am. ¹² Now I tell you to love each other, as I have loved you. ¹³ The greatest way to show love for friends is to die for them. ¹⁴ And you are my friends, if you obey me. ¹⁵ Servants don't know what their master is doing, and so I don't speak to you as my servants. I speak to you as my friends, and I have told you everything that my Father has told me. ¹⁶ You did not choose me. I chose you and sent you out to produce fruit, the kind of fruit that will last. Then my Father will give you whatever you ask for in my name. ¹⁷ So I command you to love each other.

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
Later the Lord spoke to Abram in a vision, "Abram, don't be afraid! I will protect you and reward you greatly."

Genesis 15:2
But Abram answered, " Lord All-Powerful, you have given me everything I could ask for, except children. And when I die, Eliezer of Damascus will get all I own.

Genesis 15:4
The Lord replied, "No, he won't! You will have a son of your own, and everything you have will be his."

Genesis 15:5
Then the Lord took Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky and see if you can count the stars. That's how many descendants you will have."

Genesis 15:6
Abram believed the Lord , and the Lord was pleased with him.

Genesis 15:7
The Lord said to Abram, "I brought you here from Ur in Chaldea, and I gave you this land."

Genesis 15:9
Then the Lord told him, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove, and a young pigeon."

Genesis 15:11
And when birds came down to eat the animals, Abram chased them away.

Genesis 15:18
At that time the Lord made an agreement with Abram and told him: I will give your descendants the land east of the Shihor River on the border of Egypt as far as the Euphrates River.

Genesis 15:19
They will possess the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

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.