John 13:34
Listen, you have to love each other, just as much as I loved you. This is a new thing I’m telling you, and you have to do it.
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
In Context
35People will see you loving each other, and they will know that you are my followers.”
Cross References
John 15:17Listen, I’m telling you again what you have to do, you have to love each other.”
Romans 12:10You have to love each other like brothers and sisters that belong to the same family. You have to respect other Christians more than you respect yourself.
1 Corinthians 13:4If we love people, we will be good to them, and we will not get angry with people that give us trouble. If we love people, we will not be jealous of them. If we love people, we will not reckon we are better than they are, and we will not think we are really good when we are not good.
Galatians 5:13You see, my Christian friends, God picked you to be people that are free from the Jewish law. But you have to be free in the right way. You can’t just do anything you like, anything that makes you feel good. Instead of that, you have to love each other and do things to help each other.
Matthew Henry on John 13:32-36
Christ's Departure Predicted. 31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By… Read the whole commentary →