John 15:17
New International Version
This is my command: Love each other.

New Living Translation
This is my command: Love each other.

English Standard Version
These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

Berean Standard Bible
This is My command to you: Love one another.

Berean Literal Bible
These things I command you, that you love one another.

King James Bible
These things I command you, that ye love one another.

New King James Version
These things I command you, that you love one another.

New American Standard Bible
This I command you, that you love one another.

NASB 1995
“This I command you, that you love one another.

NASB 1977
“This I command you, that you love one another.

Legacy Standard Bible
This I command you, that you love one another.

Amplified Bible
This [is what] I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another.

Christian Standard Bible
“This is what I command you: Love one another.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is what I command you: Love one another.

American Standard Version
These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“These things I command you that you will love one another.”

Contemporary English Version
So I command you to love each other.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These things I command you, that you love one another.

English Revised Version
These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

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

Good News Translation
This, then, is what I command you: love one another.

International Standard Version
I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."

Literal Standard Version
These things I command you, that you love one another;

Majority Standard Bible
This is My command to you: Love one another.

New American Bible
This I command you: love one another.

NET Bible
This I command you--to love one another.

New Revised Standard Version
I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

New Heart English Bible
"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

Webster's Bible Translation
These things I command you, that ye love one another.

Weymouth New Testament
"Thus I command you to love one another.

World English Bible
“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

Young's Literal Translation
'These things I command you, that ye love one another;

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Context
No Greater Love
16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. 17This is My command to you: Love one another. 18If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.…

Cross References
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 15:12
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

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

These things I command you, that you love one another.

John 15:12
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

1 Peter 2:17
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

1 John 3:14-17
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death…

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1. The union of Jesus and his members shown under the parable of a vine.
18. The hatred of the world.
26. The office of the Holy Spirit.














(17) These things I command you--i.e., the things of which He has spoken from John 15:1 onwards, and especially from John 15:12-16. After speaking them He comes back to the purpose from which this section started, "that ye love one another."

We must beware of the not unfrequent mistake of interpreting "these things" of the words which follow, as if it were, "I command you this, viz., to love one another." The thought is, "I am giving you these precepts that you may love one another."

Verses 17-27. - (b) The results of this union with Christ to the unbelieving world. Verse 17. - These things do I command you - clearly pointing back to Ver. 12 - that ye may love one another. This entire meditation culminates where it began. The digression comes back to the main theme Westcott regards it as the starting-point of a new theme, but our Lord did not return upon the idea of mutual love, but discusses the effect upon the world of that love to each other and to him which blended their personalities into one mystic unity. This verse shows how the new topic links itself with the previous discussion. His dying for them, thus proving his friendship for them, and all the other signs of his interest and confidence, have been set before them to this great end; for while the world is full of outrage and mutual animosities, the motive of his own entire self-manifestation is to awaken a new and higher type and model of humanity. Well may the familiar legend of St. John in the churches of Ephesus confirm this sublime truth. From this point to the end of the chapter (Ver. 27) Christ unfolded the consequences, to the unbelieving world, of the sacred union between himself and his disciples, and he discussed the reciprocal relations between his own disciples and the world, seeing that they are united with him in such a close incorporation.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
This
ταῦτα (tauta)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

is My command
ἐντέλλομαι (entellomai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1781: To give orders (injunctions, instructions, commands). From en and the base of telos; to enjoin.

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

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.


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