Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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. New 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. English Standard Version If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. Berean Standard 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. Berean Literal Bible If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. King James Bible 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. New King James Version If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. New American Standard 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. NASB 1995 “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. NASB 1977 “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love. Legacy Standard Bible If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. Amplified Bible If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. Christian 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. Holman Christian 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. American Standard 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. Contemporary English Version If you obey me, I will keep loving you, just as my Father keeps loving me, because I have obeyed him. English Revised 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation If you obey my commandments, you will live in my love. I have obeyed my Father's commandments, and in that way I live in his love. Good News Translation If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. International Standard Version If you keep my commandments, you'll abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. Majority Standard 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. NET Bible If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and remain in his love. New Heart English Bible If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Weymouth New Testament If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love. World English Bible If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionif you may keep My commands, you will remain in My love, according as I have kept the commands of My Father, and remain in His love; Berean Literal Bible If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. Young's Literal Translation if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love; Smith's Literal Translation If ye keep my commands, ye shall remain in my love; as I have kept my Father's commands, and remain in his love. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleIf you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father's commandments, and do abide in his love. Catholic Public Domain Version If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father’s precepts and I abide in his love. New American 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. New Revised Standard Version If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleIf you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and I remain in his love. Aramaic Bible in Plain English “If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and I abide in his love.” NT Translations Anderson New TestamentIf you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. Godbey New Testament Haweis New Testament If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father?s commandments, and as I abide in his love. Mace New Testament your love to me will be in keeping my commandments: even as I love my father by keeping his commandments. Weymouth New Testament If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love. Worrell New Testament Worsley New Testament and Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context No Greater Love…9As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. 10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. 11I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.… Cross References John 14:15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. John 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.” John 14:23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. John 8:29 He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.” 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 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome, 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. 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. Matthew 19:17 “Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.” Luke 11:28 But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Galatians 5:14 The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” James 1:22-25 Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. / For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, / and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. ... James 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. Deuteronomy 5:10 but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. Treasury of Scripture If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. ye keep. John 14:15,21 If ye love me, keep my commandments… 1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. even. John 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. John 12:49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. Jump to Previous Abide Commandments Commands Continue Father's Kept Love Obey ObeyedJump to Next Abide Commandments Commands Continue Father's Kept Love Obey ObeyedJohn 15 1. The union of Jesus and his members shown under the parable of a vine.18. The hatred of the world. 26. The office of the Holy Spirit. If you keep My commandments The phrase "If you keep My commandments" emphasizes the conditional nature of abiding in Christ's love. The Greek word for "keep" is "τηρέω" (tēreō), which means to guard, observe, or give heed to. This implies a vigilant and intentional effort to adhere to the teachings of Jesus. In the historical context, commandments were not merely rules but a way of life that defined one's relationship with God. Jesus, as the fulfillment of the Law, calls His followers to a higher standard of love and obedience, reflecting the covenant relationship between God and His people. you will remain in My love just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love Even as I have kept my Father's commandments . . .--Comp. Note on John 15:9 and reference there. This is again an appeal to His perfect sinlessness, and willing subordination as Son to the Father. We should notice also that the keeping of the commandments is not an arbitrary condition imposed upon human love; but a necessary result of love itself, and therefore as true in the relation of the Son to the Father as it is in our relation to Him. Because the Son loved the Father, therefore He kept His commandments, and in this love He abode in the Father's love. Because we love God we necessarily keep His commandments, and in this love is the receptive power which constitutes abiding in the divine love. Verse 10. - If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love. This is the method and secret, the stimulus and proof, of abiding in the love of Christ. This is not exactly the converse (Westcott) of "If ye love me, keep my commandments." Doubtless there is a love which dictates obedience to the loved One's will. Our Lord here avers, however, something further, viz. that obedience issues in a higher love. The obedience here described is the outcome of love, but the power is thus gained to continue, dwell, in the Divine love, to abide, that is, in the full enjoyment and fullness of my Divine love to you. This is obvious from the confirmatory clause: Even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. The Lord kept the Father's commandment always, doing those things which please him, offering up his precious life, laying it down that he might take it again; and the consequence is that he then and there knew that he was filled with all the fullness of the Divine love. The very impressive line of thought pervades this passage, that what the Father was to him, that he would prove to his disciples. What the love of God was to the Christ, the love of Christ was to his disciples.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Ifἐὰν (ean) Conjunction Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc. you keep τηρήσητε (tērēsēte) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive 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 μου (mou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. commandments, ἐντολάς (entolas) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Strong's 1785: An ordinance, injunction, command, law. From entellomai; injunction, i.e. An authoritative prescription. you will remain μενεῖτε (meneite) Verb - Future Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 3306: To remain, abide, stay, wait; with acc: I wait for, await. A primary verb; to stay. in ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. My μου (mou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. love, ἀγάπῃ (agapē) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast. just as καθὼς (kathōs) Adverb Strong's 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that. I ἐγὼ (egō) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. have kept τετήρηκα (tetērēka) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular Strong's 5083: From teros; to guard, i.e. To note; by implication, to detain; by extension, to withhold; by extension, to withhold. My μου (mou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. Father’s Πατρός (Patros) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'. commandments ἐντολὰς (entolas) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Strong's 1785: An ordinance, injunction, command, law. From entellomai; injunction, i.e. An authoritative prescription. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. remain μένω (menō) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular Strong's 3306: To remain, abide, stay, wait; with acc: I wait for, await. A primary verb; to stay. in ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. His αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. love. ἀγάπῃ (agapē) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast. Links John 15:10 NIVJohn 15:10 NLT John 15:10 ESV John 15:10 NASB John 15:10 KJV John 15:10 BibleApps.com John 15:10 Biblia Paralela John 15:10 Chinese Bible John 15:10 French Bible John 15:10 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: John 15:10 If you keep my commandments you will (Jhn Jo Jn) |