John 15:12

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John 15:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 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.

11 I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

John 13:34

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

Romans 12:10

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,

1 Thessalonians 4:9

Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.

1 Peter 1:22

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

1 Peter 3:8

Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.

1 John 2:8

Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.

1 John 2:9

If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.

1 John 2:10

Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.

1 John 3:11

This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

1 John 3:12

Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

1 John 3:13

So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

1 John 3:15

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.

1 John 3:16

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

1 John 3:17

If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

1 John 3:18

Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

1 John 3:23

And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.

1 John 4:21

And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.