John 15:10

World English Bible (2000)

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐὰν τὰς ἐντολάς μου τηρήσητε, μενεῖτε ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ μου· καθὼς ἐγὼ τὰς ἐντολὰς τοῦ Πατρός μου τετήρηκα, καὶ μένω αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ.

Transliteration

Ean tas entolas mou tērēsēte, meneite en tē agapē mou; kathōs egō tas entolas tou Patros mou tetērēka, and menō autou en tē agapē.

Grammar Details

• *Ean*: conditional particle - if
• *tas entolas*: accusative, feminine, plural - the commandments
• *mou*: genitive, singular, first person pronoun - my/of me
• *tērēsēte*: aorist subjunctive, active, second person plural - you keep
• *meneite*: future indicative, active, second person plural - you will remain
• *en tē agapē*: preposition + dative - in the love
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/even as
• *egō*: nominative, singular, first person pronoun - I
• *tou Patros*: genitive, masculine, singular - of the Father
• *tetērēka*: perfect indicative, active, first person singular - I have kept
• *menō*: present indicative, active, first person singular - I remain/abide
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular, pronoun - his/of him

Word Meanings

• *entolas*: commandments/instructions/orders
• *tērēsēte*: keep/observe/obey
• *meneite*: will remain/will abide/will continue
• *tetērēka*: have kept/have observed/have obeyed
• *menō*: remain/abide/stay/continue

Referenced Verses

• John 14:15 : 15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
• 2 Pet 2:21 : 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
• 1 John 3:21-24 : 21 Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God; 22 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. 23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded. 24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
• 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
• Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
• John 8:29 : 29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
• John 12:49 : 49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
• John 14:21 : 21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
• John 14:31 : 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
• John 17:4 : 4 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
• 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• 1 John 2:1-2 : 1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. 2 And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• 1 John 2:5 : 5 But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
• Isa 42:1-4 : 1 "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights-- I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. 2 He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. 3 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice. 4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law."
• Matt 3:15-17 : 15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him. 16 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him. 17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
• Heb 7:26 : 26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
• Heb 10:5-9 : 5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me; 6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'" 8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law), 9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, 10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.