John 14:15
Jesus kept on talking to them. He said, “If you love me, you will do everything I told you to do.
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
In Context
14Yes, if you ask for anything like that, I will do it for you.”
16And I will ask my father to send you another helper. He will come to you and stay with you for ever.
Cross References
Matthew 10:37You see, you have to love me more than you love your own father and mother. Then it is all right for you to be my follower. And you have to love me more than you love your own son or daughter. Then it is all right for you to be my follower. If you don’t love me like that, you are not the right person to be my follower.
John 8:42Jesus said to them, “No. God is not your father. You see, God sent me here. It wasn’t my idea to come here, God sent me. But you don’t love me. So I know that God is not your father.
John 15:10I always do what my father wants me to do, and he keeps on loving me. In the same way, if you keep on doing what I told you to do, I will keep on loving you.
1 Corinthians 16:22And I want to say this to anyone that doesn’t love our leader, Jesus, “God will punish you.” And I’m telling Jesus, “Please come back soon.”
Ephesians 3:16He is very great, and he can work powerfully in you, so I pray that he will do that. I pray that his spirit will make your spirits strong, inside yourselves.
Matthew Henry on John 14:13-15
Christ's Consolatory Discourse. 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. The disciples, as they were full of grief to think of parting with their Master, so they were full of care what would become of themselves when he was gone;… Read the whole commentary →