John 15:10

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do 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 ye love me, my commands keep,
• 2 Pet 2:21 : 21 for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged `it', to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
• 1 John 3:21-24 : 21 Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God, 22 and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do, 23 and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us, 24 and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.
• 1 John 5:3 : 3 for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;
• Rev 22:14 : 14 `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;
• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;
• John 8:29 : 29 and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.'
• John 12:49 : 49 because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,
• John 14:21 : 21 he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'
• John 14:31 : 31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.
• John 17:4 : 4 I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do `it'.
• 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.
• 1 John 2:1-2 : 1 My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, 2 and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,
• 1 John 2:5 : 5 and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.
• Isa 42:1-4 : 1 Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth. 2 He doth not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard, in the street. 3 A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment. 4 He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.
• Matt 3:15-17 : 15 But Jesus answering said to him, `Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him. 16 And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and lo, opened to him were the heavens, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him, 17 and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, `This is My Son -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'
• Heb 7:26 : 26 For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,
• Heb 10:5-9 : 5 Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me, 6 in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight, 7 then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;' 8 saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' -- which according to the law are offered -- 9 then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish; 10 in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,