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John 15:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. "
John 15:14
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
16 You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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John 15:1
"“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer."
John 15:2
"Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit."
John 15:3
"You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you."
John 15:4
"Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me."
John 15:5
"I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing."
John 15:6
"If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned."
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