Verse
John 15:12 — This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.”
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The verses around John 15:12.
10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
12This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Verse explanation
Repeats the central command already given in chapter 13: to love one another following the pattern of Jesus’s own love for them.
From the John 15 study in Bible in Stories.
John 15:12 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
O meu mandamento é este: Que vos ameis uns aos outros, assim como eu vos amei.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
Este é meu mandamento: que vos ameis uns aos outros, assim como eu vos amei.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Este es mi mandato: ámense unos a otros como yo los he amado a ustedes.
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In other languages: Português (João 15:12) · Español (Juan 15:12)
More verses about love
- 1 Corinthians 13:4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
- 1 Corinthians 13:13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
- John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not…
- 1 John 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
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