John 15:14

John 15:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
• New International Version (NIV)You are my friends if you do what I command.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You are my friends if you do what I command you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

Context of John 15:14

12“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you. 13No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

John 15:14 word by word

ὑμεῖς φίλοι μού ἐστε ἐὰν ποιῆτε ἃ ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαι ὑμῖν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Yeσύsu · youG4771
• areεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• myἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• friendsφίλοςphilos · friendly/friendG5384
• ifἐάνean · ifG1437
• ye doποιέωpoieō · to do/make: doG4160
• whatsoeverὅσοςhosos · just as/how muchG3745
• commandἐντέλλωentellomai · to orderG1781

Cross-references for John 15:14

• John 14:15“If you love me, you will keep my commands.
• 2 Chronicles 20:7Are you not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and who gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
• Isaiah 41:8But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, my friend —
• Matthew 12:50For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
• Luke 12:4“I say to you, my friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.
• James 2:23and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God’s friend.
• John 2:5“Do whatever he tells you,” his mother told the servants.
• John 13:17If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
• John 14:21The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
• 1 John 5:3For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,

Commentaries on John 15:14

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-17Verses 9-17 Those whom God loves as a Father, may despise the hatred of all the world. As the Father loved Christ, who was most worthy, so he loved his disciples, who were unworthy. All that love the Saviour should continue in their love to him, and take all occasions to show it. The joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment, but the joy of those who abide in Christ's love is a continual feast. They are to show their love to him by keeping his…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-16God considered Abraham and Moses to be his friends (Exodus 33:11; 2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23). This is the closest relationship possible between God and a person. Jesus chooses his friends (John 15:16). They demonstrate their friendship by obeying him.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12-1612-16. That ye love one another, &c.--(See on Joh 13:34, 35).Read the comment

Topics related to John 15:14

• Commandments
• Duty
• Friends
• Obedience
• Righteous
• Works

In the dictionaries

• Cloke
• Herein
• Atonement
• Comforter
• Communion; (fellowship)
• Friend; Friendship
• Holy Spirit
• Jesus Christ
• Johannine Theology
• John, Gospel of

Commentaries on John 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings