John 15:12

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My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 13:34 : 34 “I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers 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 gave us the commandment.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.
  • Rom 12:10 : 10 Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
  • 1 John 2:7-9 : 7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard. 8 On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 9 The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness. 10 The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
  • 1 John 3:11-18 : 11 God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another, 12 not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous. 13 Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. 16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians. 17 But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Suffering for Doing Good Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 Thanksgiving We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:13-18
    6 verses
    90%

    13No one has greater love than this– that one lays down his life for his friends.

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

    15I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

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

    17This I command you– to love one another.

    18The World’s Hatred“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

  • John 13:33-35
    3 verses
    89%

    33Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders,‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ now I tell you the same.

    34“I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

    35Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”

  • John 15:7-11
    5 verses
    85%

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

    8My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

    9“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

    10If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed 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%

    15Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

  • John 13:14-15
    2 verses
    80%

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

    15For I have given you an example– you 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 gave us the commandment.

  • 1 John 4:11
    77%

    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

  • John 14:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

    20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

    21The person who has my commandments and obeys 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 they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

    22The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one–

    23I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5Warning Against False Teachers But now I ask you, lady(not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

    6(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.

  • John 12:50
    75%

    50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

  • Mark 12:31
    75%

    31The second is:‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

  • John 15:4
    75%

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

  • John 14:31
    74%

    31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • 1 John 4:21
    74%

    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

  • Matt 22:38-39
    2 verses
    74%

    38This is the first and greatest commandment.

    39The second is like it:‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

  • 1 John 3:11
    74%

    11God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that 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 am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

  • John 10:17
    74%

    17This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

  • John 13:1
    73%

    1Washing the Disciples’ Feet Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

  • Luke 6:31
    73%

    31Treat others in the same way that you would want them to treat you.

  • John 14:23-25
    3 verses
    73%

    23Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

    24The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

    25“I have spoken these things while staying 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%

    16We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

  • Gal 5:14
    73%

    14For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely,“You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

  • John 15:20
    73%

    20Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

  • Rom 13:9
    73%

    9For the commandments,“Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,”(and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this,“Love your neighbor as yourself.”

  • John 17:18
    72%

    18Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.

  • Matt 5:43
    72%

    43Love for Enemies“You 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 am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.