John 14:15
New International Version
“If you love me, keep my commands.

New Living Translation
“If you love me, obey my commandments.

English Standard Version
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Berean Standard Bible
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Berean Literal Bible
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

King James Bible
If ye love me, keep my commandments.

New King James Version
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.

New American Standard Bible
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

NASB 1995
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

NASB 1977
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Legacy Standard Bible
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Amplified Bible
“If you [really] love Me, you will keep and obey My commandments.

Christian Standard Bible
“If you love me, you will keep my commands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“If you love Me, you will keep My commands.

American Standard Version
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will do as I command.

English Revised Version
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

Good News Translation
"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

International Standard Version
"If you love me, keep my commandments.

Majority Standard Bible
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

NET Bible
"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

New Heart English Bible
If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Webster's Bible Translation
If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Weymouth New Testament
"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

World English Bible
If you love me, keep my commandments.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
If you love Me, keep My commands,

Berean Literal Bible
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Young's Literal Translation
'If ye love me, my commands keep,

Smith's Literal Translation
If ye love me, keep my commands.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
If you love me, keep my commandments.

Catholic Public Domain Version
If you love me, keep my commandments.

New American Bible
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

New Revised Standard Version
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
If you love me, then obey my commandments.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“If you love me, keep my commandments.”
NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
If you love me, keep my commandments;

Godbey New Testament
If you love me, keep my commandments.

Haweis New Testament
If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Mace New Testament
if ye love me, keep my commandments.

Weymouth New Testament
"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

Worrell New Testament
"If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments;

Worsley New Testament
If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father,

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Context
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
14If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it. 15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—…

Cross References
1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

1 John 2:3-5
By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. / If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. / But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

1 John 3:22-24
and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight. / And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us. / Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.

2 John 1:6
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

John 15:10
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.

John 15:14
You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Matthew 22:37-40
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ / This is the first and greatest commandment. / And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ...

Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

Luke 6:46
Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?

Romans 13:8-10
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. / The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” / Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

James 2:14-26
What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? / Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. / If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that? ...

1 Peter 1:22
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

Galatians 5:14
The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Deuteronomy 6:5
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Deuteronomy 10:12-13
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, / and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?


Treasury of Scripture

If you love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:21-24
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him…

John 8:42
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

John 15:10-14
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…

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John 14
1. Jesus comforts his disciples with the hope of heaven;
5. professes himself the way, the truth, and the life, and one with the Father;
13. assures their prayers to be effectual;
15. requires obedience;
16. promises the Comforter;
27. and leaves his peace with them.














If you love Me
This phrase sets the foundation for the entire verse. The Greek word for "love" here is "ἀγαπάω" (agapao), which refers to a selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love. This is the same type of love that God shows humanity. In the context of the Gospel of John, this love is not merely an emotional feeling but a commitment to follow Jesus and His teachings. Historically, this reflects the covenantal relationship between God and His people, where love is demonstrated through obedience and faithfulness.

you will keep
The Greek word for "keep" is "τηρέω" (tēreō), which means to guard, observe, or give heed to. This implies more than just passive observance; it suggests an active, vigilant effort to maintain and uphold. In the historical context of the early church, keeping Jesus' commandments was a way to demonstrate one's faith and commitment to the new covenant established through Christ. It reflects a lifestyle of discipleship and dedication.

My commandments
The term "commandments" in Greek is "ἐντολή" (entolē), which refers to orders or directives given by an authority. In the context of John's Gospel, these commandments are not just the ethical teachings of Jesus but encompass His entire message and mission. This includes the call to love one another, as Jesus loved, and to live in a way that reflects the values of the Kingdom of God. Historically, this would have been understood as a call to live counter-culturally, in contrast to the prevailing norms of the Roman Empire and Jewish legalism.

(15) If ye love me, keep my commandments.--Comp. Notes on John 14:17; John 13:34; John 15:10. The connection here is through the condition "in My name," which includes willing obedience to His commands. The word "My" is emphatic--"The commandments which ye have received from Me." Those of this last discourse are perhaps prominent in the thought.

Verse 15. - If ye love me, keep my commandments. This great saying is enlarged on in the subsequent section - the relation of love to obedience, obedience producing love, and love suggesting obedience and supplying it with motive. Τὰς ἐντολὰς τὰς ἐμάς, "the commandments which are peculiarly mine" (see Westcott on John 15:9), "as either adopted and reuttered by me, or as originating in my new relation to you." "Guard them as a sacred deposit, obey them as the only reasonable response you can make to authoritative command." It is somewhat startling to find the great promise that follows conditioned by loving obedience, seeing that love and obedience in any sinful man, love to Christ itself, are elsewhere made the work of the Holy Spirit. But we here come across that which often perplexes the student, viz. the contrast between the general idea of the constant and continuous work of grace in human hearts, and the special manifestation in personal glory and Divine activity of the Holy Ghost on Pentecost.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
If
Ἐὰν (Ean)
Conjunction
Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc.

you love
ἀγαπᾶτέ (agapate)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love.

Me,
με (me)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

you will keep
τηρήσετε (tērēsete)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 5083: From teros; to guard, i.e. To note; by implication, to detain; by extension, to withhold; by extension, to withhold.

My
ἐμὰς (emas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Feminine 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1699: My, mine. From the oblique cases of ego; my.

commandments.
ἐντολὰς (entolas)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 1785: An ordinance, injunction, command, law. From entellomai; injunction, i.e. An authoritative prescription.


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