John 15:12
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
In Context
11“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may abide in you, and that your joy may be full.
13Greater love has no one 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; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
Ephesians 5:2And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.
1 Thessalonians 4:9Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
1 Peter 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere love for the brothers, love one another fervently from a pure heart,
1 Peter 4:8And above all things have fervent love for one another, because “ love will cover a multitude of sins.”
1 John 3:11Because this is the message which you 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 →