John 13:34-35

34 ¹A new commandment ²I give to you, ³that you love one another: ⁴just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

35 ⁵By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

John 13:34-35 In-Context

32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.

33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'

34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

36 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?"Jesus answered him, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward."

37 Peter said to him, "Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

Cross References

• 1. 1 John 2:7, 8; 1 John 3:11; 2 John 5
• 2. John 15:12, 17; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 4:21
• 3. Leviticus 19:18; Romans 13:8; Colossians 3:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:9; 1 Timothy 1:5; 1 Peter 1:22
• 4. John 15:12; Ephesians 5:2; 1 John 4:10, 11
• 5. [1 John 3:14; 1 John 4:20]