John 14:15

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“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”

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“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”

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“If ye love me, keep my commandments.”

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“If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.”

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“`If ye love me, my commands keep,”

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Cross references

Other passages that echo John 14:15 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Kings 18:6He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.
  2. Matthew 10:37Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
  3. Matthew 25:34Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
  4. John 8:42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
  5. John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
  6. John 15:10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
  7. John 21:15When they had finished eating, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love Me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “You know I love You.” Jesus replied, “Feed My lambs.”
  8. 1 Corinthians 16:22If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!
  9. 2 Corinthians 5:14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
  10. 2 Corinthians 8:8I am not making a demand, but I am testing the sincerity of your love in comparison to the earnestness of others.
  11. Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
  12. Ephesians 3:16I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,
  13. Ephesians 6:24Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
  14. Philippians 1:20I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
  15. Philippians 3:7But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
  16. 1 Peter 1:8Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
  17. 1 John 2:3By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
  18. 1 John 4:19We love because He first loved us.
  19. 1 John 5:2By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
  20. 2 John 1:6And 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.

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