John 15:10

John 15:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
• English Standard Version (ESV)If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
• New King James Version (NKJV)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

Context of John 15:10

8You give glory to my Father when you produce a lot of fruit and therefore show that you are my disciples. 9“I have loved you the same way the Father has loved me. So live in my love. If you obey my commandments, you will live in my love. I have obeyed my Father’s commandments, and in that way I live in his love. 11I have told you this so that you will be as joyful as I am, and your joy will be complete. 12Love each other as I have loved you. This is what I’m commanding you to do.

John 15:10 word by word

ἐὰν τὰς ἐντολάς μου τηρήσητε, μενεῖτε ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ μου· καθὼς ἐγὼ τὰς ἐντολὰς τοῦ πατρός μου τετήρηκα, καὶ μένω αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Ifἐάνean · ifG1437
• ye keepτηρέωtēreō · to keep: observeG5083
• myἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• commandmentsὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• commandmentsἐντολήentolē · commandmentG1785
• ye shall abideμένωmenō · to stayG3306
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• loveἀγάπηagapē · loveG26
• even asκαθώςkathōs · as/just asG2531
• Father’sπατήρpatēr · fatherG3962
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• hisαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846

Cross-references for John 15:10

• John 14:15“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
• 1 Corinthians 7:19Circumcision is nothing, and the lack of it is nothing. But keeping what God commands is everything.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:1Now then, brothers and sisters, because of the Lord Jesus we ask and encourage you to excel in living a God-pleasing life even more than you already do. Do this the way we taught you.
• 2 Peter 2:21It would have been better for them never to have known the way of life that God approves of than to know it and turn their backs on the holy life God told them to live.
• 1 John 2:5But whoever obeys what Christ says is the kind of person in whom God’s love is perfected. That’s how we know we are in Christ.
• 1 John 3:21Dear friends, if our conscience doesn’t condemn us, we can boldly look to God
• 1 John 5:3To love God means that we obey his commandments. Obeying his commandments isn’t difficult
• Revelation 22:14“Blessed are those who wash their robes so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
• John 4:34Jesus told them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me.
• John 8:29Besides, the one who sent me is with me. He hasn’t left me by myself. I always do what pleases him.”
• John 12:49I have not spoken on my own. Instead, the Father who sent me told me what I should say and how I should say it.
• John 14:31However, I want the world to know that I love the Father and that I am doing exactly what the Father has commanded me to do. Get up! We have to leave.”
• John 17:4On earth I have given you glory by finishing the work you gave me to do.
• Isaiah 42:1Here is my servant, whom I support. Here is my chosen one, with whom I am pleased. I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
• Matthew 3:15Jesus answered him, “This is the way it has to be now. This is the proper way to do everything that God requires of us.” Then John gave in to him.
• Hebrews 7:26We need a chief priest who is holy, innocent, pure, set apart from sinners, and who holds the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the heavenly throne.

Commentaries on John 15:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10If ye keep my commandments, etc. - Hence we learn that it is impossible to retain a sense of God's pardoning love, without continuing in the obedience of faith.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10See John 14:23-24.Read the comment
• 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. 10Just as Jesus demonstrated his love for the Father by obeying his will (14:31), the disciples of Jesus show their love by obeying him (13:34–35; 14:15; 1 John 2:5; 5:2–3).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-119-11. continue ye in my love--not, "Continue to love Me," but, "Continue in the possession and enjoyment of My love to you"; as is evident from the next words.Read the comment

Topics related to John 15:10

• Commandments
• God
• Jesus Continued
• Jesus, the Christ
• Obedience
• Righteous

In the dictionaries

• Cloke
• Herein
• Atonement
• Children of God
• Comforter
• Commandment; Commandments
• Communion; (fellowship)
• Ethics of Jesus
• Holy Spirit
• Jesus Christ

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