John 14:15

Jesus says that loving Him will show itself in keeping His commandments. It binds genuine love for Christ to obedience.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Jn 2:3–5By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
• 1 Jn 5:2–3By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
• John 14:21–24Whoever 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.”
• 2 Jn 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.
• John 15:10–14If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
• 1 Jn 4:19–20We love because He first loved us.
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
• 1 Pet 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,
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
• Matt 25:34–40Then 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.
• Matt 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;
• John 21:15–17When 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.”
• 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.
• 1 Cor 16:22If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!
• Eph 6:24Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
• 2 Cor 8:8–9I am not making a demand, but I am testing the sincerity of your love in comparison to the earnestness of others.
• Eph 3:16–18I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,
• Phil 3:7–11But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
• Phil 1:20–23I 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.

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