John 15:9

Contemporary English Version

I have loved you, just as my Father has loved me. So remain faithful to my love for you.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"I have loved you as the Father has loved me. Now continue in my love.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
As the father hath loved me eve so have I leved you. Continue in my love.

Hebrew Names Version
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

International Standard Version
Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So abide in my love.

New American Standard Bible
"Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love.

New Century Version
I loved you as the Father loved me. Now remain in my love.

Update Bible Version
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

Webster's Bible Translation
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

English Standard Version
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

World English Bible
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you.

Weymouth's New Testament
As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As my fadir louede me, Y haue loued you; dwelle ye in my loue.

English Revised Version
Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

Berean Standard Bible
As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.

Amplified Bible
"I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love [and do not doubt My love for you].

American Standard Version
Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

Bible in Basic English
Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Just as my Father has loved me, I too have loved you; so stay in my love.

Darby Translation
As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

Etheridge Translation
As my Father hath loved me, so I have loved you: continue in the love of me.

Murdock Translation
As my Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in the love of me.

King James Version (1611)
As the Father hath loued me, so haue I loued you: continue ye in my loue.

New Living Translation
"I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.

New Life Bible
I have loved you just as My Father has loved Me. Stay in My love.

New Revised Standard
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.

Geneva Bible (1587)
As the father hath loued me, so haue I loued you: continue in that my loue.

George Lamsa Translation
Just as my Father has loved me, I also have loved you; remain in my love.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Just as the Father loved me, I also, loved you: Abide ye in my love.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love.

Revised Standard Version
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
As the father hath loued me, euen so haue I loued you: Continue ye in my loue.

Good News Translation
I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love.

Christian Standard Bible®
“As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.

King James Version
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

Lexham English Bible
"Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

Literal Translation
As the Father loved Me, I also loved you; continue in My love.

Young's Literal Translation
According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Like as my father hath loued me, eue so haue I loued you. Cotynue ye i my loue.

Mace New Testament (1729)
as the father has loved me, and I have loved you: so do you persevere in your love to me.

THE MESSAGE
"I've loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love. If you keep my commands, you'll remain intimately at home in my love. That's what I've done—kept my Father's commands and made myself at home in his love.

New English Translation
"Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

New King James Version
"As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"I've loved you the way my Daddy loves me. My love is like a campfire on a cold night. Stay close and stay safe.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.

Legacy Standard Bible
Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.

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

the Father: John 15:13, John 17:23, John 17:26, Ephesians 3:18, Revelation 1:5

continue: John 15:11, 1 John 2:28, Jude 1:20

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:4 - That the Lord 1 Kings 13:9 - For Psalms 36:10 - continue Psalms 37:28 - forsaketh Psalms 119:167 - soul Song of Solomon 2:4 - his banner Daniel 10:19 - O man Matthew 17:5 - in whom Luke 6:47 - doeth John 3:35 - Father John 10:17 - General John 11:5 - loved John 13:1 - having John 14:21 - that loveth John 14:31 - that the Acts 14:22 - exhorting Galatians 4:29 - after the Spirit Colossians 1:23 - ye continue 2 Thessalonians 2:16 - which James 1:25 - and 1 John 2:24 - ye also 1 John 5:18 - keepeth

Cross-References

Genesis 22:13
Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it in place of his son.

Leviticus 1:10
If you sacrifice a ram or a goat, it must not have anything wrong with it.

Leviticus 1:14
If you offer a bird for this kind of sacrifice, it must be a dove or a pigeon.

Leviticus 3:1
The Lord said: When you offer sacrifices to ask my blessing, you may offer either a bull or a cow, but there must be nothing wrong with the animal.

Leviticus 3:6
Instead of a bull or a cow, you may offer any sheep or goat that has nothing wrong with it.

Leviticus 9:2
Then he said to Aaron: Find a young bull and a ram that have nothing wrong with them. Offer the bull to the Lord as a sacrifice for sin and the ram as a sacrifice to please him.

Leviticus 9:4
Then the people must offer a bull and a ram as a sacrifice to ask the Lord 's blessing and also a grain sacrifice mixed with oil. Do this, because the Lord will appear to you today.

Leviticus 12:8
If she cannot afford a lamb, she can offer two doves or two pigeons, one as a sacrifice to please me and the other as a sacrifice for sin.

Leviticus 14:22
Depending on what you can afford, you must also offer either two doves or two pigeons, one as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please me.

Psalms 50:5
"Call my followers together! They offered me a sacrifice, and we made an agreement."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As the Father hath loved me,.... As his own Son, and as Mediator, from everlasting; and in time, in his state of humiliation, throughout the course of his obedience, and under all his sufferings; which he testified more than once by a voice from heaven; which he showed by concealing nothing from him as Mediator, by giving all things into his hands, by showing him all that he himself did, by appointing him the Saviour of the body, and making him the head of the church, by exalting him at his right hand, and ordaining him to be judge of quick and dead.

So have I loved you: Christ loves his as his spouse and bride, as his dear children, as members of his body, as branches in him the vine, as believers in him, and followers of him; which he has shown by espousing both their persons and cause, by assuming their nature, by suffering and dying in their room and stead, and making all suitable provision for them, both for time and eternity. And there is a likeness between the Father's love to him, and his love to his disciples and followers: as his Father loved him from everlasting, so did he love them; as his Father loved him with a love of complacency and delight, so did he, and so does he love them; and as his Father loved him with a special and peculiar affection, with an unchangeable, invariable, constant love, which will last for ever, in like manner does Christ love his people; and with this he enforces the following exhortation.

Continue ye in my love: meaning either in his love to them, which, as he always continues in it without any variableness or shadow of turning, so he would have them continue in believing their interest in it, prizing and valuing it, in imitating and remembering it; or else in their love to him, to his person, to his people, to his Gospel, to his ordinances, ways, and worship, which he knew was liable to wax cold, though it could not be lost.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As the Father hath loved me - The love of the Father toward his only-begotten Son is the highest affection of which we can conceive. Compare Matthew 3:17; Matthew 17:5. It is the love of God toward his coequal Son. who is like him in all things, who always pleased him, and who was willing to endure the greatest sacrifices and toils to accomplish his purpose of mercy. Yet this love is adduced to illustrate the tender affection which the Lord Jesus has for all his friends.

So have I loved you - Not to the same degree, for this was impossible, but with the same kind of love - deep, tender. unchanging; love prompting to self-denials, toils, and sacrifices to secure their welfare.

Continue ye - The reason which he gives for their doing this is the strength of the love which he had shown for them. His love was so great for them that he was about to lay down his life. This constitutes a strong reason why we should continue in his love:

1. Because the love which he shows for us is unchanging.
2. It is the love of our best friend - love whose strength was expressed by toils, and groans, and blood.
3. As he is unchanging in the character and strength of his affection, so should we be. Thus only can we properly express our gratitude; thus only show that we are his true friends.
4. Our happiness here and forever depends altogether on our continuing in the love of Christ. We have no source of permanent joy but in that love.

In my love - In love to me. Thus it is expressed in the Greek in the next verse. The connection also demands that we understand it of our love to him, and not of his love to us. The latter cannot be the subject of a command; the former may. See also Luk 11:42; 1 John 2:5; Jude 1:21.