11 translations · Greek
John 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:15 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- If you love me, keep my commandments.
- KJV King James Version
- If ye love me, keep my commandments.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
- ASV American Standard Version
- If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- If you love Me, keep My commands,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- If you love me, you will keep my commands.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- 'If ye love me, my commands keep,
- DBY Darby Translation
- If ye love me, keep my commandments.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- If ye love me, keep my commandments.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- If you love me, keep my commandments.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- If you love me, keep my commandments.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἐὰν | Ean | If | G1437 ἐάν if |
| ἀγαπᾶτέ | agapate | you love | G25 ἀγαπάω to love |
| με | me | Me | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
| τὰς | tas | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἐντολὰς | entolas | commandments | G1785 ἐντολή commandment |
| τὰς | tas | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἐμὰς | emas | My | G1699 ἐμός mine |
| τηρήσετε | tērēsete | you will keep | G5083 τηρέω to keep: observe |
Related verses
- 1 John 2:3–5
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him. But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
- 1 John 5:2–3
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
- John 14:21–24
One 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.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. …
- 2 John 1:6
This 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 15:10–14
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. I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. …
- 1 John 4:19–20
We love him, because he first loved us. If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
- 2 Corinthians 5:14–15
For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
- 1 Peter 1:8
whom 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—
- Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
- Matthew 25:34–40
Then 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; for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’ …
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
13 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
Read all of John 14 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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