João 15:12

12 O meu mandamento é este: Que vos ameis uns aos outros, assim como eu vos amei.

João 15:12 Meaning and Commentary

John 15:12

This is my commandment, that ye love one another
Christ had been before speaking of his commandments; and he mentions this as the principal one, and to which all the rest may be reduced; for as the precepts of the second table of the moral law may be briefly comprehended in this one duty, love to our neighbour, so all the duties of Christianity, relative to one another, are reducible to this, by love to serve each other. This was the commandment which lay uppermost on Christ's heart, and which he knew, if attended to, the rest could not fail of being observed. The argument by which, and the manner in which, he presses it, is as before:

as I have loved you;
than which nothing can be more strong and forcible; see ( John 13:34 ) .

João 15:12 In-Context

10 Se guardardes os meus mandamentos, permanecereis no meu amor; do mesmo modo que eu tenho guardado os mandamentos de meu Pai, e permaneço no seu amor.

11 Estas coisas vos tenho dito, para que o meu gozo permaneça em vós, e o vosso gozo seja completo.

12 O meu mandamento é este: Que vos ameis uns aos outros, assim como eu vos amei.

13 Ninguém tem maior amor do que este, de dar alguém a sua vida pelos seus amigos.

14 Vós sois meus amigos, se fizerdes o que eu vos mando.