John 14:15 Cross References - MNT

¹⁵ "If you love me, you will obey my commandments,

³⁷ "He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

³⁴ "Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ "'For I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; ³⁶ "'I was naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to see me.' ³⁷ "Then shall the righteous answer him, saying. 'Master, when did we see you hungry and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸ "'When did we see you a stranger and take you in; or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ "'When did we see you sick or in prison, and come to see you?' ⁴⁰ "'In solemn truth I tell you,' the King will answer them, 'that inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these, my brothers, you have done it unto me.'

⁴² Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me.

²¹ "It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him." ²² "How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus replied. "If any loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. ²⁴ "He that loves me not does not obey words, and yet the words to which you are listening are not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

¹⁰ "If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love. ¹¹ "I have told you these things that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ¹² "This is my command, Love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ "You are my friends if you do what I command you.

¹⁵ When they were through breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me." he answered. Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs." ¹⁶ He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me." "Be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus. ¹⁷ The third time Jesus asked him, "Am I really dear to you?" Peter was grieved because the third time he asked, "Am I really dear to you?" and he answered, "Master, you know all things, you know that you are dear to me."

²² If any one does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord is coming.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died; ¹⁵ and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them.

⁸ I do not say this by way of command, but by the zeal of others I am trying to prove the reality of your love. ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

⁶ because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love.

¹⁶ praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being; ¹⁷ that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love, ¹⁸ that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is "the breadth," "the length," "the depth," and "the height,"

²⁴ May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with sincerity.

²⁰ So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death. ²¹ For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. ²² But now, if life in the flesh, if this be the fruit of my toil—what to choose I do not know, ²³ but am in a quandary between the two. I am perplexed. I have a strong desire to break camp and to be with Christ, which is far better;

⁷ But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ. ⁸ In very truth I count all things but loss compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and esteem them but refuse that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be found in him; not having my own righteousness of the Law, but that alone which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which comes from God, founded upon faith. ¹⁰ I long to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, by sharing the likeness of his death; ¹¹ if by any means I might attain to the resurrection from the dead!

⁸ Him you love, though you have never seen him; in him you ever believe, though even now you see him not, and you are rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory,

³ This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments. ⁴ He who says, "I know Him," but does no continue obeying his commandments, is a liar, ⁵ and the truth is not in him; bit if any man obey his word, in him truly is the love of God made perfect. By this we come to know that we are in him.

¹⁹ We love because He loved us first. ²⁰ If any one says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love God, whom he has not seen.

² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. ³ For love to God means obeying his commandments; and his commandments are not irksome.

⁶ And this is love, that we should lead our lives according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should pass your life in love.