John 15:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you.

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  • John 13:34 : 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And above all things have fervent love among yourselves: for love will cover a multitude of sins.
  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 And this is his commandment: that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
  • Rom 12:10 : 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love; in honor giving preference to one another;
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all people, just as we do toward you:
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But concerning brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
  • 1 John 2:7-9 : 7 Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning. 8 Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines. 9 He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
  • 1 John 3:11-18 : 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 13 Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16 By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
  • 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brothers, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each other abounds;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:13-18
    6 verses
    90%

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

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

    15From now on I call you not servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

    16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He may give it to you.

    17These things I command you, that you love one another.

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

  • John 13:33-35
    3 verses
    89%

    33Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek me; and as I said to the Jews, Where I am going, you cannot come, so now I say to you.

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

    35By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

  • John 15:7-11
    5 verses
    85%

    7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done for you.

    8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you shall be my disciples.

    9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; continue in my love.

    10If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love.

    11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

  • John 14:15
    82%

    15If you love me, keep my commandments.

  • John 13:14-15
    2 verses
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    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, that you should do as I have done to you.

  • 1 John 3:23
    79%

    23And this is his commandment: that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

  • 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%

    19Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you will live also.

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

    21He who has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is who loves me: and he 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 they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.

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

    23I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5And now I urge you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

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

  • John 12:50
    75%

    50And I know that his command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told me, so I speak.

  • Mark 12:31
    75%

    31And the second, like it, is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these.

  • John 15:4
    75%

    4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

  • John 14:31
    74%

    31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

  • 1 John 4:21
    74%

    21And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

  • Matt 22:38-39
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    74%

    38This is the first and great commandment.

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

  • 1 John 3:11
    74%

    11For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

  • John 14:28
    74%

    28You have heard me say to you, I am going away and coming back to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because I said, I am going to the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

  • John 10:17
    74%

    17Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

  • John 13:1
    73%

    1Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

  • Luke 6:31
    73%

    31And as you would that men should do to you, do also to them likewise.

  • John 14:23-25
    3 verses
    73%

    23Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

    24He who does not love me does not keep my words: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

    25These things I have spoken to you while being present 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
    73%

    16By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

  • Gal 5:14
    73%

    14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

  • John 15:20
    73%

    20Remember the word I said to you, 'The servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

  • 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 if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

  • John 17:18
    72%

    18As you have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

  • Matt 5:43
    72%

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

  • John 17:13
    72%

    13And now I come to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.