10If 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. …
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-17)Christ, who is love itself, is here discoursing concerning love, a fourfold love. I. Concerning the Father’s love to him; and concerning this he here tells us, 1. That the Father did love him (John 15:9): As the Father hath loved me . He loved him as Mediator: This is my beloved Son . He was the Son of his love. He loved him, and gave all things into his hand ; and yet so loved the world as to del…
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