John 14:15 BSB — MannaFest

John 14:15

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

KJV

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

If 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 record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1932: “Love's Law and Life” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1886)

THIS is a chapter singularly full of certainties and remarkably studded with "ifs." Concerning most of the great things in it there never can be an, "if," and yet, "if," comes up, I think, no less than seven times in the chapter and, "if," too, not about trifles, but about the most solemn subjects. It is, perhaps, worthy of mention that with each of these, "ifs," there is something connected, as following out of it, or appearing to be involved in it, or connected with it. Look at the second verse.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἐὰν	Ean	If	G1437 →
ἀγαπᾶτέ	agapate	you shall love	G25 →
με,	me	Me,	G3165 →
τὰς	tas	<the>	G3588 →
ἐντολὰς	entolas	commandments	G1785 →
τὰς	tas	<the>	G3588 →
ἐμὰς	emas	of Mine	G1473 →
τηρήσετε.	tērēsete	you will keep.	G5083 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 John 1:6
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
leads to
- 1 John 5:3
  For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
- 1 John 2:24
  As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.
- John 15:10
  If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
- Galatians 5:13–14
  For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
- 1 John 2:5
  But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About John

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About John