No one is taking it away from me, but I am giving it up voluntarily. I have the right to give it up and I have the right to take it back again. I received the commandment to do this from my Father.”
John 15:10 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) If you obey my commandments, [then] you will continue receiving my love; just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and [so] continue receiving His love. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you keep My commandments [if you continue to obey My instructions], you will abide in My love and live on in it, just as I have obeyed My Father's commandments and live on in His love. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. Catholic Public Domain Version If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father's precepts and I abide in his love. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father's commandments, and do abide in his love. |
No one is taking it away from me, but I am giving it up voluntarily. I have the right to give it up and I have the right to take it back again. I received the commandment to do this from my Father.”
For I did not speak from myself [i.e., on my own authority], but the Father Himself, who sent me, has ordered me what to say and speak.
The person who knows [what] my commandments [are] and obeys them is the one who [truly] loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”
Jesus answered him, “If a person loves me, he will obey my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him [i.e., in the person of the indwelling Holy Spirit].
But, in order for the world to know that I love the Father, I am [always] doing what the Father commands me to. Let us get up, and leave here.” [i.e., leave the room where they had eaten the Passover meal. See 13:1 with 18:1].
I am honoring you [while] on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
Jesus answered them; “My food is doing what God, who sent me, wants me to, and accomplishing His work.
And God, who sent me, is with me; He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to Him.”
Now you people have not known Him [i.e., to be your Lord], but I know Him. And if I should say, ‘I do not know Him’ I would be a liar like you. But I [do] know Him, and I obey His message.
Being circumcised does not matter [with God], nor does being uncircumcised matter [either]. But observing God’s commands is what matters.
Finally then, brothers, we request and urge you, in [the fellowship of] the Lord, that you should live [dedicated lives] and please God. Just as you people received direction from us [on doing this], see that you [continue to] do it more and more.
For Jesus was a very suitable head priest for us [i.e., He meets our needs very well], because He was holy, innocent, without [moral] corruption, separated from sinners and [exalted] above the heavens.
It would have been better for them if they had not known the right way [to God] than, after knowing it, to turn back from the sacred message that had been presented to them.
And here is how we can be assured that we know Jesus [i.e., that we are saved]: [It is] by obeying what He commands us.
But the person who obeys what His teaching requires, truly in this person love for God has been made complete. This is [another way] to be sure that we are in [fellowship with] Him:
The person who claims he is continuing to live in [fellowship with] Jesus should also live the way He did.
For this is [real evidence of] our love for God: [It is] obeying what He commands us to do. And obeying His commands does not cause us any grief [or, unpleasantness].
Those who wash their robes are blessed because [then] they will have the right to [eat from] the tree of life, and will [be able to] enter the city through the gates.