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 2:3–5And hereby we do know that we 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 14:21–24He 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.
• 2 Jn 1:6And 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.
• John 15:10–14If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
• 1 Jn 4:19–20We love him, because he first loved us.
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
• 1 Pet 1:8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
• Gal 5:6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
• Matt 25:34–40Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
• Matt 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
• John 21:15–17So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
• John 8:42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
• 1 Cor 16:22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
• Eph 6:24Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
• 2 Cor 8:8–9I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
• Eph 3:16–18That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
• Phil 3:7–11But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
• Phil 1:20–23According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

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