John 15:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

This I command you– to love one another.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 15:12 : 12 My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.
  • 1 John 3:14-17 : 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?
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • John 15:7-16
    10 verses
    90%

    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.

    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.

  • John 13:33-35
    3 verses
    86%

    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 14:15
    81%

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

  • John 15:18-20
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    78%

    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 13:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    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
    76%

    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.

  • John 17:21-24
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    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.

    24“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

  • John 15:4-5
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    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.

    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.

  • 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 14:20-21
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    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.”

  • 1 John 4:11
    75%

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

  • 1 John 4:21
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    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

  • 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.

  • John 16:1
    74%

    1“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

  • 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 14:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • John 17:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

  • John 13:17
    73%

    17If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

  • 1 John 2:15
    72%

    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • Luke 6:27
    72%

    27“But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

  • Matt 5:43-44
    2 verses
    72%

    43Love for Enemies“You have heard that it was said,‘Love your neighbor’ and‘hate your enemy.’

    44But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you,

  • John 17:11
    72%

    11I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

  • John 17:18
    72%

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

  • John 13:1
    72%

    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.

  • John 17:26
    71%

    26I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

  • 1 Thess 4:9
    71%

    9Now 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.