John 15:17

American Standard Version (1901)

These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 15:12 : 12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
  • 1 John 3:14-17 : 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:7-16
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    90%

    7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

    8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and [so] shall ye be my disciples.

    9Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

    10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

    11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and [that] your joy may be made full.

    12This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

    13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

    14Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.

    15No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.

    16Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

  • John 13:33-35
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    33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say unto you.

    34A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

    35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

  • John 14:15
    81%

    15If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

  • John 15:18-20
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    78%

    18If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before [it hated] you.

    19If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

    20Remember the word that I said unto you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

  • John 13:14-15
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    14If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

    15For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you.

  • 1 John 3:23
    76%

    23And 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.

  • John 17:21-24
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    21that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

    22And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we [are] one;

    23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.

    24Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. [

  • John 15:4-5
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    75%

    4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.

    5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
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    5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

    6And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

  • John 14:20-21
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    20In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

    21He 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.

  • 1 John 4:11
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    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

  • 1 John 4:21
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    21And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.

  • John 14:31
    74%

    31but 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 16:1
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    1These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to stumble.

  • 1 John 3:11
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    11For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

  • John 14:24-25
    2 verses
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    24He that loveth me not keepeth not my words: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

    25These things have I spoken unto you, while [yet] abiding with you.

  • John 16:27
    73%

    27for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

  • John 17:13-14
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    13But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

    14I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

  • John 13:17
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    17If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.

  • 1 John 2:15
    72%

    15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • Luke 6:27
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    27But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you,

  • Matt 5:43-44
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    72%

    43Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy:

    44but I say unto you, love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;

  • John 17:11
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    11And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we [are] .

  • John 17:18
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    18As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world.

  • John 13:1
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    1Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto his Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

  • John 17:26
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    26and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;