John 14:15

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

If ye love me kepe my comaundementes

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐὰν ἀγαπᾶτέ με, τὰς ἐντολὰς τὰς ἐμὰς τηρήσατε.

Transliteration

If agapate me, the entolas the emas tērēsate.

Grammar Details

• *agapate*: present subjunctive active, 2nd person plural - you love
• *me*: accusative, 1st person singular pronoun - me
• *entolas*: accusative, feminine, plural - commandments
• *emas*: accusative, feminine, plural possessive adjective - my
• *tērēsate*: aorist imperative active, 2nd person plural - keep!

Word Meanings

• *agapate*: love/cherish/value highly
• *entolas*: commandments/instructions/precepts
• *tērēsate*: keep/observe/guard/maintain

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 2:3-5 : 3 And herby we are sure that we knowe him yf we kepe his comaundementes. 4 He that sayth I knowe him and kepeth not his commaundementes is a lyar and the veritie is not in him. 5 Whosoever kepeth his (worde) in him is the love of god parfect in dede. And therby knowe we that we are in him.
• 1 John 5:2-3 : 2 In this we knowe yt we love the children of god whe we love god and kepe his comaudementes. 3 This is ye love of god yt we kepe his comaundemetes and his comaundementes are not greveous
• 1 John 4:19-20 : 19 We love him for he loved vs fyrst. 20 Yf a man saye I love god and yet hate his brother he is a lyar. For how can he yt loveth not his brother whom he hath sene love god whom he hath not sene?
• 2 John 1:6 : 6 And this is the love that we shulde walke after his commaundementes. This commaundement is (that as ye have hearde from the begynninge) ye shuld walke in it.
• John 14:21-24 : 21 He that hath my comaundemetes and kepeth them the same is he that loveth me. And he yt loveth me shall be loved of my father: and I will love him and will shewe myne awne selfe vnto him. 22 Iudas sayde vnto him (not Iudas Iscarioth) Lorde what is the cause that thou wilt shewe thy selfe vnto vs and not vnto the worlde? 23 Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: yf a man love me and wyll kepe my sayinges my father also will love him and we will come vnto him and will dwelle with him. 24 He that loveth me not kepeth not my sayinges. And the wordes which ye heare are not myne but the fathers which sent me.
• John 15:10-14 : 10 Yf ye shall kepe my comaudemetes ye shall byde in my love eve as I have kept my fathers comaundementes and byde in his love. 11 These thinges have I spoken vnto you yt my ioye myght remayne in you and that youre ioye might be full. 12 This is my commaundement that ye love togedder as I have loved you. 13 Gretter love then this hath no man then that a man bestowe his lyfe for his frendes. 14 Ye are my fredes yf ye do whatsoever I commaunde you.
• Eph 3:16-18 : 16 that he wolde graunt you acordynge to the ryches of his glory that ye maye be strenghted with myght by his sprete in the inner man 17 yt Christ maye dwell in youre hertes by fayth yt ye beynge roted and grounded in loue 18 myght be able to comprehende with all sayntes what ys that bredth aud length deepth and heyth:
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Iesu Christ nether is circumcision enythinge worth nether yet vncircocision but faith which by love is mighty in operacion.
• Matt 25:34-40 : 34 Then shall the kynge saye to them on his right honde: Come ye blessed chyldren of my father inheret ye the kyngdo prepared for you from the beginninge of the worlde. 35 For I was anhongred and ye gave me meate. I thursted and ye gave me drinke. I was herbourlesse and ye lodged me. 36 I was naked and ye clothed me. I was sicke and ye visited me. I was in preson and ye came vnto me. 37 Then shall ye righteous answere him sayinge master whe sawe we ye anhongred and feed the? or a thurst and gave ye drinke? 38 when sawe we ye herbourlesse and lodged the? or naked and clothed the? 39 or when sawe we the sicke or in preson and came vnto the? 40 And ye kynge shall answere and saye vnto them: verely I saye vnto you: in as moche as ye have done it vnto one of ye leest of these my brethren ye have done it to me.
• 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ costrayneth vs be cause we thus iudge yf one be deed for all yt then are all deed 15 and that he dyed for all that they which live shuld not hence forth live vnto them selves but vnto hym whith died for them and rose agayne.
• 2 Cor 8:8-9 : 8 Thys saye I not as commaundynge: but be cause other are so fervent therfore prove I youre love whether it be perfait or no. 9 Ye knowe the liberalitie of oure LORde Iesus Christ which though he were riche yet for youre sakes be came poore: that ye thorow his povertie myght be made ryche.
• Matt 10:37 : 37 He that lovith hys father or mother more then me is not mete for me. And he that loveth his sonne or doughter more then me is not mete for me.
• 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 who ye have not sene and yet love him in whom even now though ye se him not ye yet beleue and reioyce with ioye vnspeakable and glorious:
• Eph 6:24 : 24 Grace be with all them which love oure LORde Iesus Christ in puernes. Amen.
• John 8:42 : 42 Iesus sayde vnto them: yf God were youre father then wolde ye love me. For I proceaded forthe and come from God. Nether came I of my selfe but he sent me.
• John 21:15-17 : 15 When they had dyned Iesus sayde to Simon Peter: Simon Ioana lovest thou me more then these? He sayde vnto him: ye Lorde thou knowest that I love the. He sayde vnto him: fede my lambes. 16 He sayde to him agayne the seconde tyme: Simo Ioana lovest thou me? He sayde vnto him: ye LORde thou knowest that I love ye. He sayde vnto him: fede my shepe. 17 He sayde vnto him ye thyrde tyme: Simon Ioanna lovest thou me? And Peter sorowed because he sayde to him ye thyrde tyme lovest thou me and sayde vnto him: Lorde thou knowest all thinge thou knowest that I love the. Iesus sayde vnto him: fede my shepe.
• 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 Yf eny man love not the Lorde Iesus Christ the same be anathema maranatha.
• Phil 1:20-23 : 20 as I hertely loke for and hope that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but that with all confidence as all wayes in tymes past even so now Christ shalbe magnified in my body whether it be thorowe lyfe or els deeth. 21 For Christ is to me lyfe and deeth is to me a vauntage. 22 Yf it chaunce me to live in the flesshe that is to me frutefull forto worke and what to chose I wote not. 23 I am constrayned of two thinges: I desyre to be lowsed and to be with Christ which thinge is best of all.
• Phil 3:7-9 : 7 But the thynges that were vauntage vnto me I counted losse for Christes sake. 8 Ye I thinke all thynges but losse for that excellet knowledges sake of Christ Iesu my LORde. For whom I have counted all thynge losse and do iudge them but donge that I myght wynne Christ 9 and myght be founde in him not havynge myne awne rightewesnes which is of the lawe: But that which spryngeth of the fayth which is in Christ. I meane the rightewesnes which cometh of God thorowe fayt 10 in knowynge him and the vertue of his resurreccion and the fellowshippe of his passions that I myght be coformable vnto his (deeth) 11 yf by eny meanes I myght attayne vnto the resurreccion from deeth.