John 14:15

John 14:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)If ye love me, keep my commandments.
• New International Version (NIV)“If you love me, keep my commands.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“If you love Me, keep My commandments.

Context of John 14:15

13And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. “If you love me, you will obey my commandments. 16Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever – 17the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

John 14:15 word by word

Ἐὰν ἀγαπᾶτέ με, τὰς ἐντολὰς τὰς ἐμὰς τηρήσετε.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Ifἐάνean · ifG1437
• ye loveἀγαπάωagapaō · to loveG25
• meἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• keepτηρέωtēreō · to keep: observeG5083
• myἐμόςemos · mineG1699
• commandmentsἐντολήentolē · commandmentG1785

Cross-references for John 14:15

• John 14:21The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
• John 8:42Jesus replied, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.
• John 15:10If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
• John 21:15Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these do?” He replied, “Yes, Lord, you know I love you.” Jesus told him, “Feed my lambs.”
• Matthew 10:37“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
• Matthew 25:34Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
• 1 Corinthians 16:22Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come!
• 2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
• 2 Corinthians 8:8I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.
• Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.
• Ephesians 3:16I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
• Ephesians 6:24Grace be with all of those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
• Philippians 1:20My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.
• Philippians 3:7But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.
• 1 Peter 1:8You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
• 1 John 2:3Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

Commentaries on John 14:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15If ye love me, keep my commandments - Do not be afflicted at the thought of my being separated from you: the most solid proof ye can give of your attachment to and affection for me is to keep my commandments. This I shall receive as a greater proof of your affection than your tears.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15If ye love me - Do not show your love by grief at my departure merely; or by profession, but by obedience. Keep my commandments - This is the only proper evidence of love to Jesus, for mere profession is no proof of love; but that love for him which leads us to do all his will, to love each other, to deny ourselves, to take up our cross, and to follow him through evil report and through good report, is true attachment. The evidence which we have that a…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-17Verses 12-17 Whatever we ask in Christ's name, that shall be for our good, and suitable to our state, he shall give it to us. To ask in Christ's name, is to plead his merit and intercession, and to depend upon that plea. The gift of the Spirit is a fruit of Christ's mediation, bought by his merit, and received by his intercession. The word used here, signifies an advocate, counsellor, monitor, and comforter. He would abide with the disciples to the end of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15If you love me: Because Jesus loves the Father, he is obedient to what God directs him to say and do (12:49). If we love him, we will obey him, too (14:21, 23; 15:10, 14; see 1 John 2:3–4; 5:2).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-1715-17. If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, &c.--This connection seems designed to teach that the proper temple for the indwelling Spirit of Jesus is a heart filled with that love to Him which lives actively for Him, and so this was the fitting preparation for the promised gift. he shall give you another Comforter--a word used only by John; in his Gospel with reference to the Holy Spirit, in his First Epistle (1Jo 2:1), with…Read the comment

Topics related to John 14:15

• Commandments
• Duty
• Love
• Obedience
• Righteous

In the dictionaries

• Believe
• Comforter
• Comfortless
• Hence
• Present
• Suffice
• Truth
• Works, Good
• Atonement
• Commandment; Commandments

Commentaries on John 14

• 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