Bible Strands
John 15:10
If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses His disciples immediately after commanding them to remain in His love in John 15:9. He delivers this statement during the final teaching sequence before His departure.
The words — τηρήσητε (tērēsēte) translates literally as "you shall keep," and μενεῖτε (meneite) means "you will remain." These verbs form the grammatical core that links obedience directly to abiding in love.
The thread — The conditional pattern repeats in John 14:15, which explicitly connects love for Jesus with keeping His commandments. This structural link continues in 1 John 5:3, which defines the love of God as keeping His commandments.
Why it lands — The text states that remaining in divine love requires active obedience, modeled on Christ’s own keeping of the Father’s commandments. It demands sustained practical compliance rather than passive belief.
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The Greek words
King James Version
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
Cross-references
- John 14:15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
- 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
- 1 John 3:21 Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,
- 1 John 2:5 But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
- 2 Peter 2:21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
- John 4:34 Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
- John 8:29 He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
- 1 John 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
- John 17:4 I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.