If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
Parallel translations
- WEB If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
- KJV If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
- NKJV If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
- NASB If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
- NLT When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
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Quick answer
Keeping Jesus' commandments is how the disciples remain in His love, just as He kept the Father's and remains in His love. Obedience is the path of abiding love.
Overview
Jesus links remaining in His love with keeping His commandments, modeling this on His own perfect obedience to the Father. This is not earning love but living within it; obedience is the natural expression and sustaining channel of loving fellowship. The believer's obedience flows from grace and keeps the relationship of love vital and unbroken.
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- John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
- 1 Jn 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
- 1 Jn 3:21–24Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,
- 1 Jn 2:5But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
- 2 Pet 2:21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
- John 8:29He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
- John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
- 1 Jn 2:1–2My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
- John 17:4I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.
- John 14:21Whoever 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.”
- Matt 3:15–17“Let it be so now,” Jesus replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then John permitted Him.
- John 12:49I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
- 1 Th 4:1Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
- John 14:31But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
- Rev 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
- Isa 42:1–4“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
- 1 Cor 7:19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
- Heb 10:5–10Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.
- Heb 7:26Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
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