John 15:12

World English Bible (2000)

"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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  • John 13:34 : 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
  • 1 John 3:23 : 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.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
  • Rom 12:10 : 10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
  • 1 John 2:7-9 : 7 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. 8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines. 9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. 10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
  • 1 John 3:11-18 : 11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; 12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous. 13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? 18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
  • 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:13-18
    6 verses
    90%

    13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

    14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

    15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

    16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

    17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

    18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

  • John 13:33-35
    3 verses
    89%

    33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.

    34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

    35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

  • John 15:7-11
    5 verses
    85%

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

    8 "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

    9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

    10 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.

    11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

  • John 14:15
    82%

    15 If you love me, keep my commandments.

  • John 13:14-15
    2 verses
    80%

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

    15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

  • 1 John 3:23
    79%

    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.

  • 1 John 4:11
    77%

    11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

  • John 14:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

    20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

    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 17:21-23
    3 verses
    76%

    21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

    22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;

    23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

    6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

  • John 12:50
    75%

    50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."

  • Mark 12:31
    75%

    31 The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

  • John 15:4
    75%

    4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

  • John 14:31
    74%

    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.

  • 1 John 4:21
    74%

    21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

  • Matt 22:38-39
    2 verses
    74%

    38 This is the first and great commandment.

    39 A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

  • 1 John 3:11
    74%

    11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

  • John 14:28
    74%

    28 You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.

  • John 10:17
    74%

    17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

  • John 13:1
    73%

    1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

  • Luke 6:31
    73%

    31 "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

  • John 14:23-25
    3 verses
    73%

    23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

    24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

    25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.

  • John 16:27
    73%

    27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

  • 1 John 3:16
    73%

    16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

  • Gal 5:14
    73%

    14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

  • John 15:20
    73%

    20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

  • Rom 13:9
    73%

    9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

  • John 17:18
    72%

    18 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

  • Matt 5:43
    72%

    43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'

  • John 17:13
    72%

    13 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.