John 15:12

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This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.

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  • John 13:34 : 34 'I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.'
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 Now this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 And this commandment we have from Him: Whoever loves God must also love their brother or sister.
  • Rom 12:10 : 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
  • 1 John 2:7-9 : 7 Dear brothers and sisters, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have already heard. 8 Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in Him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. 9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates their brother or sister is still in the darkness. 10 Whoever loves their brother or sister abides in the light, and in them there is no cause for stumbling.
  • 1 John 3:11-18 : 11 For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another. 12 Not like Cain, who was from the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil and his brother’s were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates their brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in them. 16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 But whoever has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need, yet closes his heart against them, how does the love of God abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another as brothers and sisters, be tenderhearted and humble.
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We always ought to give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of each one of you for one another is increasing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:13-18
    6 verses
    90%

    13Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

    14You are my friends if you do what I command.

    15I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know what his master is doing. Instead, I have called you friends because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you.

    16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

    17This is my command: Love one another.

    18If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

  • John 13:33-35
    3 verses
    89%

    33'Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you: Where I am going, you cannot come.'

    34'I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.'

    35'By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.'

  • John 15:7-11
    5 verses
    85%

    7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

    8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and show yourselves to be my disciples.

    9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now 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.

  • John 14:15
    82%

    15If you love me, keep my commandments.

  • John 13:14-15
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    80%

    14If I, then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

    15For I have given you an example, so that you also should do just as I have done for you.

  • 1 John 3:23
    79%

    23Now this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us.

  • 1 John 4:11
    77%

    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

  • John 14:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19In a little while, the world will see me no longer, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.

    20On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

    21The one who 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 will reveal myself to him.

  • John 17:21-23
    3 verses
    76%

    21That all of them may be one, just as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.

    22I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.

    23I in them and You in Me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I am writing you a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

    6And this is love: that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

  • John 12:50
    75%

    50I know that His command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say.

  • Mark 12:31
    75%

    31The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these.

  • John 15:4
    75%

    4Remain in me, as I also remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.

  • John 14:31
    74%

    31But so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded me. Rise, let us go from here.

  • 1 John 4:21
    74%

    21And this commandment we have from Him: Whoever loves God must also love their brother or sister.

  • Matt 22:38-39
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    74%

    38This is the first and greatest commandment.

    39And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

  • 1 John 3:11
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    11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

  • John 14:28
    74%

    28You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

  • John 10:17
    74%

    17The Father loves me because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.

  • John 13:1
    73%

    1Now, before the Passover festival, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, loved them to the very end.

  • Luke 6:31
    73%

    31Do to others as you would have them do to you.

  • John 14:23-25
    3 verses
    73%

    23Jesus answered, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.'

    24The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.

    25I have spoken these things to you while remaining with you.

  • John 16:27
    73%

    27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

  • 1 John 3:16
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    16This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

  • Gal 5:14
    73%

    14For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

  • John 15:20
    73%

    20Remember the word I spoke to you: A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

  • Rom 13:9
    73%

    9For the commandments, 'You shall not commit adultery,' 'You shall not murder,' 'You shall not steal,' 'You shall not bear false witness,' 'You shall not covet,' and any other commandment, are summed up in this statement: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

  • John 17:18
    72%

    18As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.

  • Matt 5:43
    72%

    43You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'

  • John 17:13
    72%

    13But now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.