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John 15:10–12

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10kIf you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as lI have kept mmy Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11These things I have spoken to you, nthat my joy may be in you, and that oyour joy may be full.

12p“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Read in Logos
John 15:12–13: “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

Cross references

  1. k[ch. 14:15, 23]
  2. lch. 8:55; 17:4; Phil. 2:8
  3. mSee ch. 10:18
  4. n[2 Cor. 2:3]
  5. och. 3:29; 16:24; 17:13; 1 John 1:4; 2 John 12
  6. pSee ch. 13:34

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

“I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you.

NLTNew Living Translation

When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have spoken these things to you in order that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made complete. This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.

KJV 1900King James Version

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.