Giovanni 15:12

12 Questo è il mio comandamento: che vi amiate gli uni gli altri, come io ho amato 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 osservate i miei comandamenti, dimorerete nel mio amore; com’io ho osservato i comandamenti del Padre mio, e dimoro nel suo amore.

11 Queste cose vi ho detto, affinché la mia allegrezza dimori in voi, e la vostra allegrezza sia resa completa.

12 Questo è il mio comandamento: che vi amiate gli uni gli altri, come io ho amato voi.

13 Nessuno ha amore più grande che quello di dar la sua vita per i suoi amici.

14 Voi siete miei amici, se fate le cose che vi comando.