John 15:12
New International Version
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

New Living Translation
This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.

English Standard Version
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Berean Standard Bible
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Berean Literal Bible
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I loved you.

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

New King James Version
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

New American Standard Bible
“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

NASB 1995
“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

NASB 1977
“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

Legacy Standard Bible
“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

Amplified Bible
“This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you.

Christian Standard Bible
“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you.

American Standard Version
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.”

Contemporary English Version
Now I tell you to love each other, as I have loved you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.

English Revised Version
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Love each other as I have loved you. This is what I'm commanding you to do.

Good News Translation
My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.

International Standard Version
"This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.

Literal Standard Version
This is My command, that you love one another, according as I loved you;

Majority Standard Bible
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

New American Bible
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.

NET Bible
My commandment is this--to love one another just as I have loved you.

New Revised Standard Version
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

New Heart English Bible
"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Webster's Bible Translation
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Weymouth New Testament
This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.

World English Bible
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Young's Literal Translation
'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
No Greater Love
11I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. 12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.…

Cross References
Malachi 1:2
"I have loved you," says the LORD. But you ask, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet Jacob I have loved,

John 13:34
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

John 15:17
This is My command to you: Love one another.

1 John 3:11
This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

1 John 3:23
And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.

2 John 1:5
And now I urge you, dear lady--not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning--that we love one another.


Treasury of Scripture

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

John 13:34
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Romans 12:10
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

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(12) This is my commandment.--Comp. Note on John 13:34. In John 15:10 keeping of His commandments was laid down as the means of abiding in His love. He now reminds them that that which was specially the commandment to them was love to one another. Love to God is proved by love to mankind. The two great commandments of the law are really one. "If a man love not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"

Verse 12. - This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I loved you. This (John 13:34) was given as a "new commandment;" now he gathers the many commandments into one, as though all were included in it (1 John 3:16). This thought is further vindicated by an endeavor to explain in what sense and way he was loving them.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
This
Αὕτη (Hautē)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

is
ἐστὶν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

My
ἐμὴ (emē)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Feminine 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1699: My, mine. From the oblique cases of ego; my.

commandment,
ἐντολὴ (entolē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1785: An ordinance, injunction, command, law. From entellomai; injunction, i.e. An authoritative prescription.

that
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

you love
ἀγαπᾶτε (agapate)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love.

one another
ἀλλήλους (allēlous)
Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 240: One another, each other. Genitive plural from allos reduplicated; one another.

as
καθὼς (kathōs)
Adverb
Strong's 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.

I have loved
ἠγάπησα (ēgapēsa)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love.

you.
ὑμᾶς (hymas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.


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