John 15:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • John 15:12 : 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
  • 1 John 3:14-17 : 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?
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:7-16
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    90%

    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.

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

    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.

  • John 13:33-35
    3 verses
    86%

    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 14:15
    81%

    15 If you love me, keep my commandments.

  • John 15:18-20
    3 verses
    78%

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

    19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

    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.

  • John 13:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    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
    76%

    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.

  • John 17:21-24
    4 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.

    24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

  • John 15:4-5
    2 verses
    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.

    5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
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    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 14:20-21
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    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."

  • 1 John 4:11
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    11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

  • 1 John 4:21
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    21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

  • 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.

  • John 16:1
    74%

    1 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.

  • 1 John 3:11
    74%

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

  • John 14:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • John 17:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

  • John 13:17
    73%

    17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

  • 1 John 2:15
    72%

    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

  • Luke 6:27
    72%

    27 "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

  • Matt 5:43-44
    2 verses
    72%

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

    44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

  • John 17:11
    72%

    11 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

  • John 17:18
    72%

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

  • John 13:1
    72%

    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.

  • John 17:26
    71%

    26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    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,