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 2:3–5This is how we 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 14:21–24One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
• 2 Jn 1:6This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
• John 15:10–14If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
• 1 Jn 4:19–20We love him, because he first loved us.
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
• 1 Pet 1:8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• Matt 25:34–40Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
• Matt 10:37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
• John 21:15–17So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
• John 8:42Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
• 1 Cor 16:22If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!
• Eph 6:24Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
• 2 Cor 8:8–9I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• Eph 3:16–18that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
• Phil 3:7–11However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
• Phil 1:20–23according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

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