John 15:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 15:12 : 12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.
  • 1 John 3:14-17 : 14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death. 15 Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him. 16 In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers. 17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:7-16
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    7 If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

    8 Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.

    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.

    11 I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.

    12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

    13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

    14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

    15 No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.

    16 You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.

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    33 My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.

    34 I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

    35 By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

  • 15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

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    18 If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.

    19 If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

    20 Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.

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    14 If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean.

    15 I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.

  • 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.

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    21 May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me.

    22 And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one;

    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.

    24 Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

  • John 15:4-5
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    4 Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

    5 I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
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    5 And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.

    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.

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    20 At that time it will be clear to you that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I in you.

    21 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.

  • 11 My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

  • 21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

  • 31 But he comes so that the world may see that I have love for the Father, and that I am doing as I am ordered by the Father. Get up, and let us go.

  • 1 I have said these things to you so that you may not be in doubt.

  • 11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

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    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.

    25 I have said all this to you while I am still with you.

  • 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.

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    13 And now I come to you; and these things I say in the world so that they may have my joy complete in them.

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

  • 17 If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

  • 15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 27 But I say to you who give ear to me, Have love for those who are against you, do good to those who have hate for you,

  • Matt 5:43-44
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    43 You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:

    44 But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;

  • 11 And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.

  • 18 Even as you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

  • 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

  • 26 And I have given to them knowledge of your name, and will give it, so that the love which you have for me may be in them and I in them.

  • 9 But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;