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John 15:12

What I am commanding you is this: Love each other just like I have loved you.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

In Context

11I have told you these things so that you may be joyful as I am joyful, and that you may be completely joyful.

13The best way that people can show that they love someone is to die for that person. There is no way that you can love someone in a greater way than that.

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Cross References

John 13:34Now I am giving you a new commandment: You must love each other. You must love each other in the way that I have loved you.

Ephesians 5:2Do everything in a way that shows that you love people, just like Christ loved us and willingly died for us. He offered himself to God as a sacrifice that was very pleasing to God, just like Jewish priests offered sweet-smelling animal sacrifices to God [MET].

1 Thessalonians 4:9I want to urge you again that you should love your fellow believers [MET]. You do not really need that anyone write to you about that, because God has already taught you how to love each other,

1 Peter 1:22Because you have been made pure by obeying the truth, with the result that you sincerely love your fellow believers, continue to love each other earnestly and sincerely/wholeheartedly.

1 Peter 4:8Most important of all, love each other earnestly/wholeheartedly, because if we love others [PRS], we will just ignore many of the sinful things that they do to us.

1 John 3:11The message that you heard when you first [MTY] believed in Christ is that we should love each other.

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 →

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