KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
John 15:12–14
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John 15:12
12This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
12*This is my Commaundement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.
- Chap. 13.34. 1.thes. 4.9. 1.iohn 3.11.
John 15:13
13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
13Greater loue hath no man then this, that a man lay downe his life for his friends.
John 15:14
14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoeuer I command you.
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DEFINED WORDS
John 15:12
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
commandment
An authoritative command, charge, order, or precept to be obeyed, as identified by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Affection, goodwill, devoted regard, or charity; as a verb, to regard with such affection or goodwill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
One more; an additional or different person or thing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
Having the affection of any one.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
John 15:13
Affection, goodwill, devoted regard, or charity; as a verb, to regard with such affection or goodwill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Place or set down; also rested or remained in a recumbent position, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons joined to others by affection, goodwill, or alliance; as a verb, supports or befriends.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
John 15:14
Persons joined to others by affection, goodwill, or alliance; as a verb, supports or befriends.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
whatsoever
Whatever; anything or everything that, without restriction in the stated class.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To order or direct with authority; also, an authoritative order, charge, or commandment.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 12
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Open the full verse study21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
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Open the full verse study8And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
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Open the full verse study34A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
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Open the full verse study2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
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Open the full verse study10Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
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Open the full verse study23And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
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Open the full verse study8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
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Open the full verse study22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
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Open the full verse study11For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
13Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
15Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
16Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
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Open the full verse study12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
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Open the full verse study9But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
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Open the full verse study7Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
8Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
9He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
10He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
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Open the full verse study3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
From verse 13
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Open the full verse study11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
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Open the full verse study2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
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Open the full verse study6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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Open the full verse study15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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Open the full verse study7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
From verse 14
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Open the full verse study50For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
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Open the full verse study3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
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Open the full verse study23And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
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Open the full verse study21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
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Open the full verse study15¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments.
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Open the full verse study17If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
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Open the full verse study4And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
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Open the full verse study8But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
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Open the full verse study28Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
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Open the full verse study5His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
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Open the full verse study7Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
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Open the full verse study1I AM come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
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