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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. I am sure you will never love each other too much. You cannot go beyond this rule: “Love one another, as I have loved you.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This is my commandment, That ye love one another as I have loved you. Are you doing this, brethren and sisters in Christ, really loving one another? Do you never pick holes in each other’s character? Do you never judge a fellow-Christian harshly? If you do these things, chide yourself, and cease from this evil habit at once, for your Lord says to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Obedience, then, is rewarded with a holy friendship, for Christ becomes in the highest sense our Friend; but we are not his friends till we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. O beloved, do keep this commandment! Overlook each other’s infirmities. Bear with each other’s faults. Love one another as Christ has loved us.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Greater love hath no man than this,.... By these words our Lord shows, how far love to another should extend, even to the laying down of our lives for the brethren; which is the highest instance of love among men; that a man lay down his life for his friends; and in which believers, should not come short of them; and also his great love to his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. What more has he that he can lay down when, having given up all else, he gives life itself for them?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” I lift you above the rank of servant, and make you my table companions, privileged to sit at the table with me in communion. I put you down on my list of associates and familiars, with whom I take sweet counsel,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. “I have explained...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye are my friends,.... This is an application of the foregoing passage, and more, clearly explains it. The character of "friends", is applied to the disciples of Christ; and belongs, not only to his apostles, but to all that love him, believe in him, and obey him; to whom he has showed himself friendly, by laying down his life for them: for this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. You cannot be his friends if you are disobedient to his commands. An act of disobedience is unfriendliness; ay, and the omission of obedience is unfriendliness to Christ. I wish we would always remember that every sin either of omission or of commission, is an unfriendly act towards our best...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, “That is where the love began, — not with you, but with me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Henceforth I call you not servants,.... As they and the rest of the people of God had been, under the legal dispensation; for though they were children, yet differed nothing from servants; and were very much influenced and impressed with a servile spirit, a spirit of bondage unto fear, being kept under tutors and governors by a severe discipline;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. The law made man do this and that, but it communicated very little of the secret counsels of God; but there is a holy familiarity between Christ and his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. The servant works in a building, and it is enough for him that he is laying part of a line of brick or stone. Perhaps he has never seen the design of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,.... Not but that they had made choice of him as their Lord and Master, Saviour and Redeemer; but not first, he was before hand with them; he chose them, before they chose him; so that his choice of them was entirely free, did not arise from any character, motive, or condition in them: the allusion is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that their fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. Fruitfulness, perseverance, and power in prayer, these are the priceless boons that come to us through our being one with Christ.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: There are some people who are very fond of quoting the first part of this verse, they are very glad to hear a sermon upon the free, sovereign grace of God. They cannot too often repeat the words, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you;” but they do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. There you see divine election leading on to fruit-bearing, and perpetuated in perseverance: “that your fruit should remain.” It brings...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These things I command you,.... The doctrines which Christ spake, as one having authority, concerning the vine and branches; his love to his disciples, in laying down his life for them, and in accounting and using them as friends, and not servants; in choosing, ordaining, and sending them forth, for the ends above mentioned; these were delivered...