John 15:14
12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You are My friends if you do what I command you.
- KJV
- Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
- WEB
- You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
- ASV
- Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.
- DARBY
- Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.
- BLB
- You⁺ are My friends if you⁺ do what I command you⁺.
- ÅB
- Dere er mine venner dersom dere gjør det jeg befaler dere.
- OTB
- Dere er mine venner når dere gjør det jeg befaler.
- B1930
- I er mine venner dersom I gjør det jeg byder eder.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 12:50
For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
Read in context1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
Read in contextJames 2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.
Read in contextJohn 14:21
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
Read in contextJohn 14:15
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
Read in contextJohn 13:17
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
Read in contextLuke 12:4
I tell you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.
Read in contextIsaiah 41:8
“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
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