John 15:12
This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
In Context
11These things have I spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
13Greater love has no man than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.
Cross References
John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.
1 Thessalonians 4:9But with respect to brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
1 Peter 1:22Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, to unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently,
1 Peter 4:8But, above all things, have fervent love one for another; for love will cover a multitude of sins.
1 John 3:11For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Matthew Henry on John 15:10-18
Christ's Love to His Disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my… Read the whole commentary →