John 15:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷These things I command you, that ye love one another.

John 15:17 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 15:12
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
1 John 3:14-17
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. …
1 Peter 2:17
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Topics

Benevolence Brotherly Kindness Charitableness Charity Cruelty Graces Love

Commentary

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 delive…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17-21. The substance of these important verses has occurred more than once before. (See on Mt 10:34-36; Lu 12:49-53, &c.).