John 15:12
This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
In Context
11These things I have spoken to you, so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be fulfilled.
13No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
Cross References
John 13:34I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.
Ephesians 5:2And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.
1 Thessalonians 4:9But concerning the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you. For you yourselves have learned from God that you should love one another.
1 Peter 1:22So chastise your souls with the obedience of charity, in fraternal love, and love one another from a simple heart, attentively.
1 Peter 4:8But, before all things, have a constant mutual charity among yourselves. For love covers a multitude of sins.
1 John 3:11For this is the announcement that you heard from the beginning: that you 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 →