Bible verse

John 15:17

This is My command to you: Love one another.

John 15:17 · BSB

John 15:17 in context

The verses around it, from John 15.

13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.

15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

16 You 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.

17 This is My command to you: Love one another.

18 If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

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John 15:17 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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