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Romanian Cornilescu Translation
Ioan 15:12
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
John 13:34, Romans 12:10, Ephesians 5:2, 1 Thessalonians 3:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 2 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 3:8, 1 Peter 4:8, 1 John 2:7-10, 1 John 3:11-18, 1 John 3:23, 1 John 4:21
Reciprocal: John 14:5 - we know not John 15:17 - General Galatians 6:2 - the law Colossians 3:14 - charity 1 John 2:8 - a new 1 John 3:14 - because 1 John 3:16 - and we 1 John 4:11 - General 2 John 1:5 - that we
Gill's Notes on the Bible
This is my commandment, that ye love one another,.... Christ had been before speaking of his commandments; and he mentions this as the principal one, and to which all the rest may be reduced; for as the precepts of the second table of the moral law may be briefly comprehended in this one duty, love to our neighbour, so all the duties of Christianity, relative to one another, are reducible to this, by love to serve each other. This was the commandment which lay uppermost on Christ's heart, and which he knew, if attended to, the rest could not fail of being observed. The argument by which, and the manner in which, he presses it, is as before:
as I have loved you; than which nothing can be more strong and forcible; see John 13:34.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This is my commandment - The special law of Christianity, called hence “the new commandment.” See the notes at John 13:34.
As I have loved you - That is, with the same tender affection, willing to endure trials, to practice self-denials, and, if need be, to lay down your lives for each other, 1 John 3:16.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 15:12. That ye love one another — John 13:34; John 13:34. So deeply was thus commandment engraved on the heart of this evangelist that St. Jerome says, lib. iii. c. 6, Com. ad Galat., that in his extreme old age, when he used to be carried to the public assemblies of the believers, his constant saying was, Little children, love one another. His disciples, wearied at last with the constant repetition of the same words, asked him, Why he constantly said the same thing? "Because (said he) it is the commandment of the Lord, and the observation of it alone is sufficient." Quia praeceptum Domini est, et, si solum fiat, sufficit.
