John 15:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

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Referenced Verses

  • John 13:34 : 34 `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
  • 1 John 3:23 : 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,
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 and this `is' the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.
  • Rom 12:10 : 10 in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
  • 1 John 2:7-9 : 7 Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning; 8 again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine; 9 he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now; 10 he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;
  • 1 John 3:11-18 : 11 because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another, 12 not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. 13 Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you; 14 we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death. 15 Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining, 16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; 17 and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him? 18 My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
  • 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:13-18
    6 verses
    90%

    13 greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

    14 ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

    15 no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

    16 `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

    17 `These things I command you, that ye love one another;

    18 if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

  • John 13:33-35
    3 verses
    89%

    33 `Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say `it' now.

    34 `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

    35 in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

  • John 15:7-11
    5 verses
    85%

    7 if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

    8 `In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

    9 According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

    10 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;

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

  • John 14:15
    82%

    15 `If ye love me, my commands keep,

  • John 13:14-15
    2 verses
    80%

    14 if then I did wash your feet -- the Lord and the Teacher -- ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

    15 `For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

  • 1 John 3:23
    79%

    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,

  • 1 John 4:11
    77%

    11 Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

  • John 14:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19 yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;

    20 in that day ye shall know that I `am' in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you;

    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 17:21-23
    3 verses
    76%

    21 that they all may be one, as Thou Father `art' in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

    22 `And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;

    23 I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

  • 2 John 1:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

    6 and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

  • John 12:50
    75%

    50 and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.'

  • Mark 12:31
    75%

    31 and the second `is' like `it', this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself; -- greater than these there is no other command.'

  • John 15:4
    75%

    4 remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

  • John 14:31
    74%

    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.

  • 1 John 4:21
    74%

    21 and this `is' the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

  • Matt 22:38-39
    2 verses
    74%

    38 this is a first and great command;

    39 and the second `is' like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;

  • 1 John 3:11
    74%

    11 because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

  • John 14:28
    74%

    28 ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

  • John 10:17
    74%

    17 `Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;

  • John 13:1
    73%

    1 And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who `are' in the world -- to the end he loved them.

  • Luke 6:31
    73%

    31 and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

  • John 14:23-25
    3 verses
    73%

    23 Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

    24 he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

    25 `These things I have spoken to you, remaining with you,

  • John 16:27
    73%

    27 for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

  • 1 John 3:16
    73%

    16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

  • Gal 5:14
    73%

    14 for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'

  • John 15:20
    73%

    20 `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

  • Rom 13:9
    73%

    9 for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'

  • John 17:18
    72%

    18 as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world;

  • Matt 5:43
    72%

    43 `Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and shalt hate thine enemy;

  • John 17:13
    72%

    13 `And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;