John 14:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ ἔχων τὰς ἐντολάς μου, καὶ τηρῶν αὐτάς, ἐκεῖνός ἐστιν ὁ ἀγαπῶν με: ὁ δὲ ἀγαπῶν με ἀγαπηθήσεται ὑπὸ τοῦ Πατρός μου, καὶ ἐγὼ ἀγαπήσω αὐτόν, καὶ ἐμφανίσω αὐτῷ ἐμαυτόν.

Transliteration

The one echōn tas entolas of me, and tērōn autas, ekeinos estin the one agapōn me: and the one agapōn me agapēthēsetai hypo tou Patros of me, and egō agapēsō auton, and emphanisō autō emauton.

Grammar Details

• *echōn*: present participle active, nominative, masculine, singular - having
• *tas entolas*: accusative, feminine, plural - the commandments
• *mou*: genitive, 1st person singular pronoun - my/of me
• *tērōn*: present participle active, nominative, masculine, singular - keeping
• *autas*: accusative, feminine, plural pronoun - them
• *ekeinos*: nominative, masculine, singular demonstrative - that one
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *agapōn*: present participle active, nominative, masculine, singular - loving
• *me*: accusative, 1st person singular pronoun - me
• *agapēthēsetai*: future indicative passive, 3rd person singular - will be loved
• *hypo tou Patros*: preposition + genitive - by the Father
• *egō*: nominative, 1st person singular pronoun, emphatic - I
• *agapēsō*: future indicative active, 1st person singular - I will love
• *auton*: accusative, masculine, singular pronoun - him
• *emphanisō*: future indicative active, 1st person singular - I will manifest/reveal
• *autō*: dative, masculine, singular pronoun - to him
• *emauton*: accusative, 1st person singular reflexive pronoun - myself

Word Meanings

• *entolas*: commandments/instructions/precepts
• *tērōn*: keeping/observing/guarding
• *agapōn*: loving/cherishing/valuing highly
• *emphanisō*: manifest/reveal/show/disclose

Referenced Verses

• John 14:15 : 15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
• 1 John 2:5 : 5 But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:
• 1 John 5:3 : 3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
• 2 John 1:6 : 6 And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.
• 1 John 3:18-24 : 18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith. 19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him, 20 When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things. 21 My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him; 22 And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes. 23 And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us. 24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.
• John 16:27 : 27 For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.
• John 15:9-9 : 9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love. 10 If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.
• Ezek 36:25-27 : 25 And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean. 26 And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
• Luke 11:28 : 28 But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
• Deut 30:6-8 : 6 And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life. 7 And the Lord your God will put all these curses on those who are against you, and on your haters who put a cruel yoke on you. 8 And you will again give ear to the voice of the Lord, and do all his orders which I have given you today.
• John 14:22-24 : 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world? 23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him. 24 He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.
• Deut 10:12-13 : 12 And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul, 13 Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?
• Deut 11:13 : 13 And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,
• Ps 119:4-6 : 4 You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care. 5 If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules! 6 Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.
• Isa 62:2-5 : 2 And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you will have a new name, given by the mouth of the Lord. 3 And you will be a fair crown in the hand of the Lord, and a king's head-dress in the hand of your God. 4 You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married. 5 For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.
• John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death; 15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
• Jas 2:23-24 : 23 And the holy Writings were put into effect which said, And Abraham had faith in God and it was put to his account as righteousness; and he was named the friend of God. 24 You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only.
• 1 John 1:1-3 : 1 That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life 2 (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us); 3 We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:
• Rev 22:14 : 14 A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.
• Gen 26:3-5 : 3 Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham; 4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth; 5 Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.
• Rev 2:17 : 17 He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.
• Rev 3:20 : 20 See, I am waiting at the door and giving the sign; if my voice comes to any man's ears and he makes the door open, I will come in to him, and will take food with him and he with me.
• 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
• John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.
• Jer 31:31 : 31 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah: