John Chapter 15 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV John 15:17

These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
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BBE John 15:17

So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.
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DARBY John 15:17

These things I command you, that ye love one another.
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KJV John 15:17

These things I command you, that ye love one another.
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WBT John 15:17


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WEB John 15:17

"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
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YLT John 15:17

`These things I command you, that ye love one another;
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John 15 : 17 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 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.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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."