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Selected Verse: John 15:14 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Joh 15:14 |
King James |
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you--hold yourselves in absolute subjection to Me. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
I command (ἐντέλλομαι)
Of several words for command in the New Testament, this one is always used of giving a specific injunction or precept. The kindred noun, ἐντολή, means an order, a charge, a precept and hence is used of a separate precept of the law as distinguished from the law as a whole (νόμος). See Mat 22:36, Mat 22:38. It is, however, sometimes used of the whole body of the moral precepts of Christianity. See on Joh 13:34. The sense of specific commands here falls in with the reading of the Rec. Text, ὅσα, whatsoever, literally, as many things as. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you - On this condition, not otherwise. A thunderbolt for Antinomianism! Who then dares assert that God's love does not at all depend on man's works? |
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?