John 15:14
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
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Referenced Verses
- Matt 12:50 : 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
- Luke 12:4 : 4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.
- 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,
- 2 Chr 20:7 : 7 Our God, you drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession to the descendants of your friend Abraham.
- Song 5:1 : 1 The Lover to His Beloved: I have entered my garden, O my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk!The Poet to the Couple: Eat, friends, and drink! Drink freely, O lovers!
- Isa 41:8 : 8 The Lord Encourages His People“You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,
- John 2:5 : 5 His mother told the servants,“Whatever he tells you, do it.”
- John 13:17 : 17 If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
- John 14:15 : 15 Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
- John 14:21 : 21 The 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 14:28 : 28 You 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.
- Jas 2:23 : 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says,“Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.
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- John 15:15-206 verses88%
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.
19If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
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.
- John 14:13-153 verses81%
13And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
15Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
- John 15:7-137 verses79%
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.
12My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.
13No one has greater love than this– that one lays down his life for his friends.
- John 13:12-176 verses75%
12So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them,“Do you understand what I have done for you?
13You call me‘Teacher’ and‘Lord,’ and do so correctly, for that is what I am.
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.
16I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
17If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
- John 13:34-352 verses75%
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 14:19-213 verses74%
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.”
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4“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.
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31Abraham’s Children and the Devil’s Children Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him,“If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples
- John 15:4-52 verses71%
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.
5“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.
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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 14:23-253 verses70%
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.
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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.
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50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”
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3The Benefits of Obedience“‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,
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26If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
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28“You are the ones who have remained with me in my trials.
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7If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”
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36So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.
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46“Why do you call me‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do what I tell you?
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14The Consequences of Disobedience“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments–
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33In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.
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27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
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55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.
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27My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
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4Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.
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27the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,