John 15:10

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐὰν τὰς ἐντολάς μου τηρήσητε, μενεῖτε ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ μου· καθὼς ἐγὼ τὰς ἐντολὰς τοῦ Πατρός μου τετήρηκα, καὶ μένω αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ.

Transliteration

Ean tas entolas mou tērēsēte, meneite en tē agapē mou; kathōs egō tas entolas tou Patros mou tetērēka, and menō autou en tē agapē.

Grammar Details

• *Ean*: conditional particle - if
• *tas entolas*: accusative, feminine, plural - the commandments
• *mou*: genitive, singular, first person pronoun - my/of me
• *tērēsēte*: aorist subjunctive, active, second person plural - you keep
• *meneite*: future indicative, active, second person plural - you will remain
• *en tē agapē*: preposition + dative - in the love
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/even as
• *egō*: nominative, singular, first person pronoun - I
• *tou Patros*: genitive, masculine, singular - of the Father
• *tetērēka*: perfect indicative, active, first person singular - I have kept
• *menō*: present indicative, active, first person singular - I remain/abide
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular, pronoun - his/of him

Word Meanings

• *entolas*: commandments/instructions/orders
• *tērēsēte*: keep/observe/obey
• *meneite*: will remain/will abide/will continue
• *tetērēka*: have kept/have observed/have obeyed
• *menō*: remain/abide/stay/continue

Referenced Verses

• John 14:15 : 15 If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
• 2 Pet 2:21 : 21 For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.
• 1 John 3:21-24 : 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God; 22 and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. 23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment. 24 And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
• 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
• Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right [to come] to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
• John 8:29 : 29 And he that sent me is with me; he hath not left me alone; for I do always the things that are pleasing to him.
• John 12:49 : 49 For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
• John 14:21 : 21 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 unto him.
• John 14:31 : 31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
• John 17:4 : 4 I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.
• 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• 1 John 2:1-2 : 1 My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• 1 John 2:5 : 5 but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:
• Isa 42:1-4 : 1 Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. 2 He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth. 4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.
• Matt 3:15-17 : 15 But Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [it] now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffereth him. 16 And Jesus when he was baptized, went up straightway from the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him; 17 and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
• Heb 7:26 : 26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
• Heb 10:5-9 : 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me; 6 In whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hadst no pleasure: 7 Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God. 8 Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law), 9 then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.