John 15:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐὰν τὰς ἐντολάς μου τηρήσητε, μενεῖτε ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ μου· καθὼς ἐγὼ τὰς ἐντολὰς τοῦ Πατρός μου τετήρηκα, καὶ μένω αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ.

Transliteration

Ean tas entolas mou tērēsēte, meneite en tē agapē mou; kathōs egō tas entolas tou Patros mou tetērēka, and menō autou en tē agapē.

Grammar Details

• *Ean*: conditional particle - if
• *tas entolas*: accusative, feminine, plural - the commandments
• *mou*: genitive, singular, first person pronoun - my/of me
• *tērēsēte*: aorist subjunctive, active, second person plural - you keep
• *meneite*: future indicative, active, second person plural - you will remain
• *en tē agapē*: preposition + dative - in the love
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/even as
• *egō*: nominative, singular, first person pronoun - I
• *tou Patros*: genitive, masculine, singular - of the Father
• *tetērēka*: perfect indicative, active, first person singular - I have kept
• *menō*: present indicative, active, first person singular - I remain/abide
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular, pronoun - his/of him

Word Meanings

• *entolas*: commandments/instructions/orders
• *tērēsēte*: keep/observe/obey
• *meneite*: will remain/will abide/will continue
• *tetērēka*: have kept/have observed/have obeyed
• *menō*: remain/abide/stay/continue

Referenced Verses

• John 14:15 : 15 Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
• 2 Pet 2:21 : 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 A Life Pleasing to God Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God(as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.
• 1 John 3:21-24 : 21 Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God, 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him. 23 Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment. 24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.
• 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,
• Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.
• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.
• John 8:29 : 29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”
• John 12:49 : 49 For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.
• John 14:21 : 21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
• John 14:31 : 31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.
• John 17:4 : 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
• 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
• 1 John 2:1-2 : 1 (My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One, 2 and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.
• 1 John 2:5 : 5 But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.
• Isa 42:1-4 : 1 The Lord Commissions His Special Servant“Here is my servant whom I support, my chosen one in whom I take pleasure. I have placed my Spirit on him; he will make just decrees for the nations. 2 He will not cry out or shout; he will not publicize himself in the streets. 3 A crushed reed he will not break, a dim wick he will not extinguish; he will faithfully make just decrees. 4 He will not grow dim or be crushed before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait in anticipation for his decrees.”
• Matt 3:15-17 : 15 So Jesus replied to him,“Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John yielded to him. 16 After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said,“This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”
• Heb 7:26 : 26 For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
• Heb 10:5-9 : 5 So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. 6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in. 7 “Then I said,‘Here I am: I have come– it is written of me in the scroll of the book– to do your will, O God.’” 8 When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law), 9 then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second. 10 By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.