34-35 “Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.”

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34 I am giving you a new commandment, that you [a]love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another.

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Footnotes

  1. John 13:34 The key to understanding this and other statements about love is to know that this love (the Greek word agape) is not so much a matter of emotion as it is of doing things for the benefit of another person, that is, having an unselfish concern for another and a willingness to seek the best for another.

34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.

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34 I give you a new Law. You are to love each other. You must love each other as I have loved you.

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34 (A) But I am giving you a new command. You must love each other, just as I have loved you.

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34-35 “Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.”

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35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love and unselfish concern for one another.”

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35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

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35 If you love each other, all men will know you are My followers.”

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35 If you love each other, everyone will know that you are my disciples.

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