Giovanni 15:12

12 Quest’è il mio comandamento: Che voi vi amiate gli uni gli altri, come io ho amati voi.

Giovanni 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 ) .

Giovanni 15:12 In-Context

10 Se voi osservate i miei comandamenti, voi dimorerete nel mio amore; siccome io ho osservati i comandamenti del Padre mio, e dimoro nel suo amore.

11 Queste cose vi ho io ragionate, acciocchè la mia allegrezza dimori in voi, e la vostra allegrezza sia compiuta.

12 Quest’è il mio comandamento: Che voi vi amiate gli uni gli altri, come io ho amati voi.

13 Niuno ha maggiore amor di questo: di metter la vita sua per i suoi amici.

14 Voi sarete miei amici, se fate tutte le cose che io vi comando.