John 15:17
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.
This is My command to you: Love one another.
18 If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- This is My command to you: Love one another.
- KJV
- These things I command you, that ye love one another.
- WEB
- “I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
- ASV
- These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
- DARBY
- These things I command you, that ye love one another.
- BLB
- These things I command you⁺, that you⁺ love one another.
- ÅB
- Dette befaler jeg dere at dere skal elske hverandre.
- OTB
- Dette er mitt bud: elsk hverandre.
- B1930
- Dette byder jeg eder at I skal elske hverandre.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 15:12
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Read in context1 John 3:14–17
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
Read in context1 Peter 2:17
Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
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