15If ye love me, keep my commandments.
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And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. …
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. …
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. …
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-17)Christ not only proposes such things to them as were the matter of their comfort, but here promises to send the Spirit, whose office it should be to be their Comforter, to impress these things upon them. I. He premises to this a memento of duty (John 14:15): If you love me, keep my commandments . Keeping the commandments of Christ is here put for the practice of godliness in general, and for the f…
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