Johannes 15:12

12 Das ist mein Gebot, daß ihr euch untereinander liebet, gleichwie ich euch liebe.

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Johannes 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 ) .

Johannes 15:12 In-Context

10 So ihr meine Gebote haltet, so bleibet ihr in meiner Liebe, gleichwie ich meines Vaters Gebote halte und bleibe in seiner Liebe.
11 Solches rede ich zu euch, auf daß meine Freude in euch bleibe und eure Freude vollkommen werde.
12 Das ist mein Gebot, daß ihr euch untereinander liebet, gleichwie ich euch liebe.
13 Niemand hat größere Liebe denn die, daß er sein Leben läßt für seine Freunde.
14 Ihr seid meine Freunde, so ihr tut, was ich euch gebiete.
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