John 14:15
New English Translation
Teaching on the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, you will obey[a] my commandments.[b]
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- John 14:15 tn Or “will keep.”
- John 14:15 sn Jesus’ statement If you love me, you will obey my commandments provides the transition between the promises of answered prayer which Jesus makes to his disciples in vv. 13-14 and the promise of the Holy Spirit which is introduced in v. 16. Obedience is the proof of genuine love.
John 14:21
New English Translation
21 The person who has my commandments and obeys[a] them is the one who loves me.[b] The one[c] who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal[d] myself to him.”
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- John 14:21 tn Or “keeps.”
- John 14:21 tn Grk “obeys them, that one is the one who loves me.”
- John 14:21 tn Grk “And the one.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated to improve the English style.
- John 14:21 tn Or “will disclose.”
John 14:21
World English Bible
21 One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
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John 15:10-12
New English Translation
10 If you obey[a] my commandments, you will remain[b] in my love, just as I have obeyed[c] my Father’s commandments and remain[d] in his love. 11 I have told you these things[e] so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete. 12 My commandment is this—to love one another just as I have loved you.[f]
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- John 15:10 tn Or “keep.”
- John 15:10 tn Or “reside.”
- John 15:10 tn Or “kept.”
- John 15:10 tn Or “reside.”
- John 15:11 tn Grk “These things I have spoken to you.”
- John 15:12 sn Now the reference to the commandments (plural) in 15:10 have been reduced to a singular commandment: The disciples are to love one another, just as Jesus has loved them. This is the “new commandment” of John 13:34, and it is repeated in 15:17. The disciples’ love for one another is compared to Jesus’ love for them. How has Jesus shown his love for the disciples? This was illustrated in 13:1-20 in the washing of the disciples’ feet, introduced by the statement in 13:1 that Jesus loved them “to the end.” In context this constitutes a reference to Jesus’ self-sacrificial death on the cross on their behalf; the love they are to have for one another is so great that it must include a self-sacrificial willingness to die for one another if necessary. This is exactly what Jesus is discussing here, because he introduces the theme of his sacrificial death in the following verse. In John 10:18 and 14:31 Jesus spoke of his death on the cross as a commandment he had received from his Father, which also links the idea of commandment and love as they are linked here. One final note: It is not just the degree or intensity of the disciples’ love for one another that Jesus is referring to when he introduces by comparison his own death on the cross (that they must love one another enough to die for one another) but the very means of expressing that love: It is to express itself in self-sacrifice for one another, sacrifice up to the point of death, which is what Jesus himself did on the cross (cf. 1 John 3:16).
John 15:10-12
World English Bible
10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. 11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
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